A worker has died at a sand mine in Lochaber. Emergency services were called to Lochaline Quartz Sand Ltd at Lochaline at about 12:25 on Monday. Police said the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Some jurisdictions are trying to crack down on illegal mining, but the world's insatiable demand for sand is unlikely to slow. As one of the deadliest typhoons in decades ripped through Vietnam ...

Take a walk along a beach in parts of South Australia, and you may come across unusual patches of pink sand. When a team of geologists began analysing samples of this mysterious sand to find out ...

What can you see at the beach? Sunsets, crashing waves, shells, sea turtles, and fleas. Wait, fleas? Yes, sand fleas are a thing, and most of us have spotted them hopping around the shoreline. They’re ...

It was a sad scene at the Bed-Stuy Aquarium Wednesday morning. The makeshift fish pond, formed in a tree pit thanks to a leaky hydrant and the efforts of some longtime residents near the corner of ...

The Johanna Kiln is lit only once every two years and will stay lit for 10 days with the help of volunteers on the campus of St. John’s University in Collegeville. Photographed on Oct. 11.

Patrick Sand was so deeply embedded in West Seattle that when he died suddenly Thursday, it seemed like everybody living there knew about it, and grieved. Many had read about the 67-year-old’s ...

Asked about climate change last week, Trump gave a rambling answer about getting “environmental awards” for “the water, the sand, the mixing of the sand and the water.” ...