Deep beneath the choppy waters of the North Sea, something strange is challenging the very rules that have guided geologists ...

The man was able to call 911 after he became trapped while hunting ducks off Wharton’s Point in Maine's Maquoit Bay ...

Matthew Alexander of Topsham, Maine, suddenly sank into mud on an embankment while duck hunting off Wharton’s Point in Maquoit Bay on Oct. 1 Alexander had to be rescued by police, and two officers ...

A hunter became trapped in an area of mud that acted like quicksand, prompting a rapid emergency response as the man sunk deeper and deeper.

The extraction of water from aquifers in Iran is causing an area the size of Maryland to sink, exposing an estimated 650,000 people to the risks of subsidence and freshwater depletion.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE:FCX) has released an update on the September 8 mud rush at its Grasberg Block Cave mine in Indonesia that killed two workers and left five still unaccounted for. The ...

Tangier Island in Virginia — one of the last inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay — is under threat from rising sea levels ...

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Aug. 26 (UPI) --Firefighters in England conducted an unusual rescue after a cow sank into a deep pit of mud, with its eyes and nose just barely above the surface. Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service said ...