Understanding the relationship between plasticity of muddy soil and earth pressure can be crucial to maintaining tunnel stability and predicting ground behavior during earth pressure balance (EPB) ...

Most questions I’m getting now revolve around irrigating landscape trees. I think my message about planting in wet soil and keeping plant roots wet during planting has gotten through to most people.

The city started closing off a small portion of its 220 miles long trail system five years ago to prevent increased erosion ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Water is the most essential resource for life, for both humans and the crops we consume.

SAN ANTONIO – Fresh rain finally hit San Antonio, but that water can cause your home to shift under the muddy soil. Foundation experts say the soil under your house is like a sponge. After the summer ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The ground is wet, the trees are heavy from snow, and the wind will be whipping. It’s the perfect scenario for power outages. The wet, muddy soil soaked by the latest batch of snow is ...

Bhubaneswar: The depth of Chilika lagoon, a wetland and Ramsar Convention site, is decreasing each year, with the forest ...

Crews with the Los Angeles Fire Department worked to clear an Amazon delivery truck precariously stuck in loose, muddy soil on the side of a hill that was threatening at least one home below it.

Infrastructures often suffer severe damage due to geotechnical hazards of both natural kinds such as floods or earthquakes and man-made ones like underground construction work and excavations. The ...