These initiatives are vital. State provides over $1 million to address pressing issue affecting critical waterways: 'Highest ...

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles found in everyday products from face wash to toothpaste, are an emerging threat to health and ecology, prompting a research team to identify what keeps them ...

Scientists and the nonprofit Friends of Casco Bay were well into a three-year study on PFAS levels in Casco Bay, shifting to other sampling areas following the spill. The overall project is analyzing ...

Egyptians may have harnessed hydraulic power not only for agriculture and transport but also for building pyramids. This ...

Remarkable adaptations to toxins have already inspired the development of a gel to encapsulate cadmium so it can be safely ...

Despite its Earth-like rivers and lakes of liquid methane, Saturn’s moon Titan seems oddly lacking in river deltas — geological formations that are typically rich in historical clues. Using data from ...

Researchers at Louisiana State University’s Coastal Systems Ecology Lab, led by wetland scientist and professor Robert ...

Fatmuckets, pocketbooks, pigtoes and other unfortunately named and endangered invertebrates don’t receive the same level of funding or public sympathy as game species that make their home in The ...

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

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

There were 10-100 times more marimo moss balls in Hokkaido’s Lake Akan 120 years ago, a research team has found.

In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the ...