ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic ...

A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in the Alaska estuary of Turnagain Arm became submerged up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before ...

“Tidal flats are rich in sediments and mud, which greatly damps the destructive powers from the ocean, including tidal currents, waves, tsunamis and hurricanes,” the study says. The tidal ...

A man died in Alaska on Sunday after he got trapped waist-deep in tidal mud flats and was submerged by the incoming tide, state troopers said. Zachary Porter, 20, of Illinois, got stuck in the mud ...

A 20-year-old Illinois man stuck in mud flats died when the tide rose, submerging him, Alaska State Troopers say. Getty Images/iStockphoto A 20-year-old Illinois man stuck waist-deep in tidal mud ...

In SIBES, all tidal flats in the Dutch Wadden Sea are ... drying points spread over 1,200 square kilometers of the Dutch mud ...

As crowds of onlookers trekked across Anchorage’s tidal mud flats to see the carcass of a 47-foot fin whale that washed ashore over the weekend, biologists on Monday continued searching for ...

While the specific effects on tidal flats and floodplains remain uncertain, Bianchi says, coastal wetlands are likely experiencing a net decrease. "We plan to continue to look across mud transport ...

"This may be because of the differences in chemical composition of the mud between an estuary and a tidal bay." Storage of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorous, but also of many trace elements ...