For the first 20 minutes that 34-year-old hiker Ryan Osmun was stuck in quicksand, he thought everything would be all right. “I pretty much thought it was mud,” Osmun says now, six months after he ...

In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, ...

Officials at Maine's most popular state beach posted signs last week that warn visitors the terrain beneath their feet could give way and land them in natural pockets of sticky sediment. The signs at ...

Records reveal a man died last summer after getting stuck in quicksand on the San Antonio River in South Texas and drowning. The quicksand case is the only one of its kind in at least five years in ...

“65,” in theaters now, stars Adam Driver as a spaceman who crash lands on a hostile alien world. Except that, while Driver might be a futuristic traveler, he is actually living 65 million years in the ...

Quicksand is not just the stuff of old Tarzan and Wild West movies. It’s a natural phenomenon lurking in Southern California, in or along creeks and rivers, dry washes and lakes where groundwater is ...

Utah government officials have published a safety notice about quicksand after a hiker became stuck. Earlier this month the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Utah said in a Facebook post people ...