A research team was able to revive dormant stages of algae that sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea almost 7,000 years ago. Dormancy allows many organisms, from bacteria to mammals, to survive harsh ...

A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) was able to revive dormant stages of ...

French multinational Veolia could be risking health impacts including birth defects by pumping toxins from a large landfill into protected wetlands in Colombia ...

Concerned about their health, residents in one foothill community are doing their own testing on sediments brought in from ...

The Kennedy College of Sciences, Department of Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, invites you to attend a Master's Thesis Defense by Matthew Witscheber on "Sediment and Cation Composition ...

17 out of 24 sub-drainages with results reported to date show anomalous results for lithium (range 20-191 ppm) and pathfinder ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

Penn State scientists found microplastics dating back to the 1950s buried in the sediments of a river, two creeks and a lake.

A treasure hunter uses a metal detector during a warm day at Santa Monica Beach on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. Sediment at Santa Monica Channel and Topanga Creek was tested and showed no toxic materials, ...

Samples taken by L.A. County Public Works of the sediment after a January rain storm that washed sediment and debris into the beach and ocean areas tested negative for toxic chemicals. The samples ...

To that end, the team is currently working to expand their understanding of Maine’s coastal sediments. Using “kickstarter” funding from Bigelow Laboratory, they have begun examining deeper samples ...

The tributaries deposited large amounts of sediment into the reservoir ... or “flush.” “Out of 3,306 flush samples, eight had detectable levels of lead,” Chandler said. “I think there were two that ...