A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary.
As a paleoclimatologist, Balascio studies how Earth’s climate system has changed across millennia, primarily through ...
An international research team has recovered the longest sediment core ever drilled from beneath an ice sheet. The core ...
Water movement is one of the primary drivers of habitat stability”— Joel Chaky BATON ROUGE, LA, UNITED STATES, February ...
The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...
Lake Powell, an iconic centerpiece of the Colorado River Basin and the second-largest reservoir in the United States, is facing an escalating crisis as decades of sediment buildup threaten its future.
Deep pools below waterfalls are popular recreational swimming spots, but sometimes they can be partially or completely filled with sediment. New research showed how and why pools at the base of ...