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

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

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but ...

Using seismic stations usually used for monitoring earthquakes, an international team of geoscientists tracked Earth’s ...

What do you do with a big hole in the ground? You fill it, of course. The first phase of the long-awaited $25 million Portland Harbor dredging project — construction of a 9-acre confined aquatic ...

Army Corps halts expansion of toxic dump by Lake Michigan after lawsuit and opposition from Chicago groups concerned about environmental and health impacts.

On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

After yearslong litigation from residents and activists, and following recent opposition from the state of Illinois, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday it was dropping a plan to expand ...

The study looks at newly discovered fossilized grooves and footprints discovered in fine-grained sediment at White Sands ...

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 ...

To help fix this, Sullivan will be using a large grant from the DNR to help facilitate and pay for lake dredging. Local ...