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 ...

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

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

The carcass, reduced to a bony skeleton, measured about 6.5 feet and was surrounded by crawling creatures that fed on its ...

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 ...

The white sandy shallows in a secluded bay of Langford Lake might look inviting, but paddlers beware, a surprise lurks ...

Kampung Batu Satu’s completed wave breaker project is now causing sediment deposits, which makes the waters shallower and harder to navigate. The Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) said the ...

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

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 ...