Runoff from the toxic burn — which sent melted materials from not just homes and buildings but untold vehicles, electronics, ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

Like underwater Grand Canyons, these formations cut through the ocean floor from near the coast out into the deep sea, carved out by strong currents. Sediment, nutrients and organisms are carried ...

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of microplastics into the deep sea, according to new research published today.

Credit: CoastCam/NIWA The NIWA research vessel Ikatere has been surveying Te Hoiere/Pelorus Sound to help the Council better understand its seafloor biodiversity. The survey’s first part began in ...

Scientists have discovered that powerful underwater avalanches are sweeping ... Using seabed sensors and direct sampling, the scientists were able to observe a turbidity current in action for ...

An alternative to dredging aims to capture moving sand to protect the archipelago from erosion and rising seas.

In 2021, while revelers across America celebrated the fourth of July, three researchers waded through a shallow river delta ...