Dark sediment taken from the beaches near burn scar areas at Santa Monica Channel and Topanga Creek do not contain any chemicals that would classify it as hazardous waste, the Los Angeles County ...

In 2012, an 85-year-old scientist and his son-in-law pulled a cylinder of muck from a faraway island. They carried it home like a newborn baby, froze it, and mailed it to a researcher across the ...

Due to recent rainfall and the increased chance of future storms, the Santa Barbara County Public Works Department will begin sediment deposit operations at Goleta Beach Park. The sediment deposit ...

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 ...

Since the discovery 50 years ago of subglacial lakes in Antarctica—some of the least accessible geological features on Earth—scientists have attempted to extract lake bed sediment to learn about the ...