What comes to your mind when you imagine a river? A stream of water flowing through landscapes? While that's partly true, ...

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

Throughout the Holocene epoch, paraglacial sediment supply to river basins has steadily declined 4. Global warming and continued ice retreat will temporarily increase paraglacial sediment supply ...

Using a sediment core taken from the Great Blue Hole off the coast of the Central American state of Belize, researchers from ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

A landfill projected to hold PCB-contaminated sediments from the Housatonic River and its floodplains took a significant step ...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau occupies an enormous area of Asia and is known as the Roof of the World, owing to an average elevation that exceeds ...

The study described the retrieval of human and animal DNA from 25,000-year-old sediments in the El Mirón cave, located in Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria. For the first time, researchers ...

February’s Science on Tap event featured a talk by Todd Buxton about the sediments in t River and how they impact wildlife ...

The deliberate destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war unleashed a hidden environmental crisis, destroying ecosystems and releasing polluted sediments into downstream ...