Greg Fuhrmann, an Iowa Department of Natural Resources geologist, uses a soil augur Thursday to take sediment samples from the bottom of Cedar Lake as Daniel Cook, a DNR physicist, watches.

Large surface waves produced by powerboats are a mainstay for recreational watersports. A new study from the University of ...

The research team recovered lake-bed sediment samples, buried under a 15-meter-deep lake located under 3,500 feet of Antarctica ice. The layered samples are the first of their kind collected on ...

When an earthquake causes a landslide, debris flow, or erosion, it can change the makeup of nearby lakes by introducing ...

Floating about 500 feet offshore of Illinois Beach State Park, Hillary Glandon tightened her scuba goggles, grabbed a small ...

Starting next month, a thinning portion of Silver Lake's underwater cap will be repaired. During a public hearing on ...

Researchers with the NSF-funded SALSA project captured the sediment sample on a field expedition in December 2018, cleanly boring a hole through over 3,500 feet of ice over Mercer Subglacial Lake.

The mandibles found in lake-bottom sediments are species-specific and show which other Chaoborus midge species were present in the lake in different periods of time. view more Credit: Fredrik Palm ...

New research published Friday offers hope that Perseverance Rover's Mars sediment samples could reveal traces of life - if it ever existed on Mars. The rover has already confirmed an ancient lake ...

Invasive zebra mussels have been confirmed in DeMontroville and Olson Lakes in Lake Elmo and in Long Lake in Pine Springs, located in the northeast corner of Interstate 694 and Minnesota Highway 36.