A treasure hunter uses a metal detector during a warm day at Santa Monica Beach on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. Sediment at Santa ...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau occupies an enormous area of Asia and is known as the Roof of the World, owing to an average ...

Bigelow Laboratory scientists have advanced an exciting method for linking the activity of individual microbes to their ...

The Kakhovka HEPP dam undermining not only destroyed local ecosystems, but also contaminated them with heavy metals and other ...

Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins ...

The 2023 breach of the Kakhovka dam drained a huge reservoir and exposed a vast area of toxic sediment, creating a debate ...

Beachgoers should watch out for debris and pay extra attention to water quality following rains, according to public health ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

A resident in Edmundson Acres, a community northeast of Arvin, was shocked to see murky water come out of her water faucet on ...

How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.

Multi-million pound plans to clean up the River Tyne and safeguard thousands of jobs along its banks have taken a major step ...

Dark sediment taken from the beaches near burn scar areas at Santa Monica Channel and Topanga Creek do not contain any chemicals that would classify it as hazardous waste, the Los Angeles County ...