Many wetlands are disappearing, but Louisiana’s “accidental” Wax Lake Delta is growing—and informing coastal restoration ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of predatory dinosaur in Kyrgyzstan. This dinosaur, named Alpkarakush ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

It will lead to more purple, brown, or green hues in coastal or stratified areas, with less deep blue color in water as ...

But sediment deposits are literally a growing challenge. Lake Pepin is a natural resource and tourist destination, but sediment deposits, at present rates, threaten to fill the lake within 350 years.

Researchers studying sediment layers at the bottom of the formation have identified patterns ... about the conditions at the time it was deposited. “Due to the unique environmental conditions ...

An expedition to the bottom of the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize in Central America has returned with a cargo of worrying information.

Advertising But, when the mountain blew one year later, fine sediment deposited on the riverbed began to slow the percolation of water into the intake pipes. That problem has not gone away — and ...