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

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

Sketches on a stone unearthed in Marbella, Spain, are believed to be 200,000 years old, providing insight into settlers ...

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

Scientists have decoded the metabolic strategies of certain sulfur bacteria. A new study reports that the bacteria are found worldwide and have a complex metabolism with modular features.

Many animals change landscapes by acting as ‘ecosystem engineers’. Protecting and restoring nature can help us become more ...

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 ...

Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...

Students and faculty at Davis R-12 School District have had classes off-site since January after residents raised concerns ...

Solomon Kahoʻohalahala steadied himself on the double-hulled voyaging canoe called Hōkūleʻa as a 15-foot swell rose and the ...

The researchers developed refined methods of coring in the ocean sediments and identifying plastics by their polymer composition by analyzing the total contents of samples. By jamming a tube into ...

Every summer there they are again, blue-green algae. Why are they a problem, are they getting worse with climate change and ...