This term has been used environmentally in two distinct ways. The more historic use refers to making land productive for agriculture. The current usage refers mostly to the restoration of disturbed land to an ecologically stable condition. The main...

Land reclamation is either of two distinct practices. One involves creating new land from sea- or riverbeds, the other refers to restoring an area to a more natural state (such as after pollution or salination have made it...

Rep. Morris K. Udall {op-ed, Aug. 12} acknowledged many of the positive accomplishments in reclaiming coal-mined land during the past 10 years, but also expressed strong disappointment with the agency responsible for implementing the mine reclamation law, calling it "moribund," as though the reclamation...

The government has decided to develop large tracts of land, to be farmed by private, national entrepreneurs. Of the land area of Myanmar, a total of 45 million acres are considered potentially cultivable. Of these, 23 million acres are presently cultivated, leaving a further...

Queen Elizabeth 2, one of the world's most famous cruise ships, is on its final global voyage, after which it will be transformed into a floating hotel in the United Arab Emirates.A fireworks display marked the vessel's departure from Britain's major port of Southampton Sunday.In...

JERUSALEM–As if cribbed from a page in a Passover Haggadah, the real estate pitch sketches a "Next Year in Jerusalem'' vision for the well-heeled: a gated community nestled in a bucolic hillside terrace overlooking a panorama of the Old City walls, the Dome of the...