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Mangaluru: Experts from NITK Surathkal concluded in an independent study that the Shirur disaster in Uttara Kannada district, ...

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Indonesia needs to rethink the previous administration's decision to lift a decades-long ban on sea sand exports by ...

Dubbed Sand-E, the beach cleaning robot was developed by 27 students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The team had wanted to come up with a solution to assist ...

You may be surprised to learn that the common mineral components of soil — clay, silt, sand — are not present in potting soil mix. It usually includes pumice, perlite and vermiculite ...

Jointly, the Barnegat Light First Aid Squad and Volunteer Fire Co. issued a public service announcement this week to warn beach walkers about some unstable sand along the lighthouse/jetty walkway in ...

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When Clay CEO Kareem Amin logged off in September 2021 to embark upon a 10 day meditation retreat, he had the future of his business to think about. Four years of work on the New York-based ...

Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Geomechanics and Embankment Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China ...