Those gritty bits at the end of your wine glass or left over in the bottle are sediment or "dregs," and they aren't a bad thing. But what exactly is it? And how does it affect the flavor of the wine?

Sediment cores from Pacific Highs reveal 100 million years of environmental change. ... Notably, existing sediment core materials are too degraded to apply some new techniques to test these models.

The above is one of the material disadvantages in steam boilers, to obviate which an improved apparatus has been lately invented by Samuel B. Howd, of Syracuse, N. Y., who has taken measures to ...

As government and environmental officials continue to look at storage options for dredged material from the Baltimore Harbor, Anne Arundel County residents are still concerned about the ...

Many high-mountain rivers in Asia transport more sediment downstream compared to a few years ago. Changes in sediment levels have a particularly strong impact on agriculture, water quality, flood ...

A new dredged materials management facility is being built off Jones Island in Lake Michigan. The facility will store polluted sediment removed from Milwaukee's waterways as part of a larger ...