A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger, open body of water. It is typically associated with the ocean, such as coastal lagoons and coral reef lagoons. Lagoon also can be used to describe shallow areas of liquid waste material as in...

A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow salt or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral reef, or similar feature. Thus, the enclosed body of water behind a barrier reef or barrier islands or enclosed by...

It's been a decade since North Carolina banned pork farmers from building new hog waste lagoons.In that time, environmentalists have tallied the ponds' damage to rivers and land, and neighbors have complained about their overpowering stench. Scientists have proposed new ways to deal with the...

Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas and the Galveston Island Nature Tourism Council are embarking on a project to turn the island's East End lagoon into an environmental education center.The beach-front grassland, which was targeted for development in the past, is home to numerous bird species and...

8 a.m. San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, Mexico.This is it, I tell myself, as we board the van.Either I will commune with a friendly whale today, or this is absolutely the last time I will make a grueling trek to this dusty little town and...

New legislation may help eliminate hog lagoons _ open pits of swine farm waste _ from North Carolina's agricultural landscape.State lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday that permanently bans new lagoons and orders state regulators to set environmental standards for new waste systems. The standards are...