On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

In recent years, environmental science has increasingly focused on the issue of sediment contamination by both major and trace elements, which has an impact ...

Between ice breaking tug boats, massive cranes and large barges, there's a lot happening off Jones Island in Lake Michigan ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

Microplastics are everywhere, even in our brains but experts explain how we can limit our exposure to these insidious ...

The facility will store polluted sediment removed from Milwaukee's waterways ... the walls will create a waterproof border around a site the equivalent size of 13 football fields filled 50 feet ...

X-ray scanning was used to examine the structure of the sediment and combined with geochemical and grain size data from the sediment itself. From these cores, the authors were able to show that ...

New ancient DNA research on Adélie penguin poo in Antarctica shows how several species respond to environmental change over ...

Since 2015, the European JPI Oceans project MiningImpact, coordinated by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, has been investigating the potential environmental impacts of deep-sea ...

How tribal leaders, commercial fisherman and a few small environmental groups won an uphill campaign against dams.