Among seashells, shark teeth, and sea creatures, collectors can add sea glass to the list of items to search for along ...

Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, ...

Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.

Orcas Island’s trailblazing project to divert heavy, discarded glass away from destination landfills and back to the ...

It was partly the work of the area's beer drinkers. The 3,500 bags of pale sand were made from lots and lots of recycled glass -- the equivalent of 300,000 beer bottles. Marsh grasses will be ...

The Canadian-branded booze was discovered in February, prompting speculation about how it wound up at the Jersey Shore.

Discover more about sand mining, where it occurs, and why the process damages the environments in which it is carried out in ...

A whiskey river wasn’t on Austin Contegiacomo’s mind when he found an ocean of it — a Prohibition-era stash, to be exact — ...

Sand is the literal foundation of human development across the globe, a key ingredient of concrete, asphalt, glass, and electronics. It is relatively cheap and easily extracted. Unlike critical ...

FALLS CHURCH Va.- Glass blowing is an art form that’s been around since the first century BC. The process is basically the ...