Local water-quality agency representatives recently toured a new sediment basin installed on the Route 86 bridge here. The tour was sponsored by the Essex County Water Quality Coordinating Committee ...

Earth scientists have untangled the curious landscape of China's Tarim Basin using a model simulation of ancient events. Despite lying in arid desert and being the site of rapidly growing, elongated ...

This is post #5 for Just Science week. Today's installment is also cross-posted over at Deep Sea News today. As we all know, the deep sea contains fantastic records of ancient oceanic conditions. The ...

The deep basin that lies beneath Seattle is a source of seismic worry for scientists because the shape and material of the basin amplify ground shaking. Scientists hope that new research into the ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 – A U.S. Department of Agriculture study shows that conservation practices applied to cultivated cropland in the Ohio-Tennessee River Basin are reducing losses of sediment, ...