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 ...

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

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: What measures are they taking to control ...

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

The destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam in June 2023 exposed lake bed sediment containing more than 90,000 tons of toxic ...

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

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 ...

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

Officials urge the public to avoid water contact, especially near discharging storm drains, creeks and rivers as stormwater runoff may be contaminated with bacteria and chemicals, and contain wildfire ...

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 ...