We know that tons of plastic waste washes into the ocean each year, but what we don’t know all that much about is what happens to it once it gets there. A new study as shone a light on the role ...

‘Like grabbing a package of soup’ Researchers captured the sediment sample on a field expedition in December 2018. They cleanly bored a hole through over 3,500 feet of ice over Mercer Subglacial Lake ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Sediment samples dating back thousands of years and taken from under the deep water of West Olaf Lake in Minnesota have revealed an unexpected climate indicator that can be factored ...

New research on a field of pockmarks -- large, circular depressions on the seafloor -- offshore of Central California has revealed that powerful sediment flows, not methane gas eruptions, maintain ...

For the next few weeks, the state’s marine monitoring team will collect sediment and organism samples across Puget Sound EVERETT — Holding a hard hat decorated with a “Got Mud?” sticker, Sandy ...