OAKLAND, Calif. - As part of the National Wastewater Surveillance System, California’s health and water officials coordinate with wastewater utilities, local health departments, universities, and ...

Researchers use lipid biomarkers to uncover how organisms survive in extreme ecosystems. A surprising variety of life exists ...

Discover the Oligocene age mud volcanoes in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with unique sandstone and shale lithoclasts.

It’s the ultimate needle in a haystack. “This year we’ve seen unprecedented levels of environmental contamination,” said Chelsea Himsworth, the provincial deputy chief veterinary officer and an ...

Diverse life forms exist on and within the ocean floor. These primarily consist of microbes, tiny organisms that can cope ...

For the next few weeks, the state’s marine monitoring team will collect sediment and organism samples across Puget Sound EVERETT — Holding a hard hat decorated with a “Got Mud?” sticker, Sandy ...

The smell that wafts off of the ocean is instantly recognizable: Sometimes it smells fresh and clean, but other times it’s a little clammy, briny, or sulfuric. That smell actually indicates a ...

Two water-based mud (WBM) and one potassium-based mud (PBM) drilling fluid systems emerged as alternatives to non-aqueous based fluids (NAFs) in testing at the Silurian Dadas shale of southeast Turkey ...

Researchers have discovered a new painkiller dubbed to be as effective as opioids, only minus their disadvantages, from a 16-year old mud sample found nearby a Tasmanian boat ramp. The discovery ...

On the floor of a 32-foot-deep small lake just northeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Calvin students are literally digging up history. “It was a shot in the dark when we decided to core this lake ...