By Mark Hillsdon Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is ...

"The ability of reef islands to naturally adapt to sea-level rise by raising their elevation critically depends on how much ...

The iconic reservoir faces the risk of becoming a mud lake as 100 million tons of sediment accumulate each year.

Oxygen, the molecule that supports intelligent life as we know it, is largely made by plants. Whether underwater or on land, ...

Willem van der Bilt from the Department of Earth Science at the University in Bergen and the Bjerknes Center has, together ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the continent ...

With rising sea levels, it will only get worse. But removing the dam is estimated to drop flood elevations by 1 foot. Sediment will be recycled as buffers to protect downtown. Rep. Marilyn ...

In recent years, some trawler crews and researchers have found prehistoric animal bones and basic stone tools in North Sea sediment. The team on the Belgian ship RV Belgica aims to map the Brown ...

In 1963, the Glen Canyon Dam was built. It created Lake Powell Reservoir, which straddles Utah and Arizona, to ensure a water ...

Maldives' mangroves decline rapidly due to sea-level rise and salinity, threatening coastal resilience worldwide.

Researchers have found evidence that mangrove forests – which protect tropical and subtropical coastlines – are drowning in ...

Here, we apply a transient reaction-transport model to depth profiles of key porewater and sediment constituents for a site in the Bothnian Sea where Fe-AOM has been suggested to occur. At the site, ...