A treasure hunter uses a metal detector during a warm day at Santa Monica Beach on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. Sediment at Santa ...

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

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

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 ...

Bigelow Laboratory scientists have advanced an exciting method for linking the activity of individual microbes to their ...

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 ...

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 ...