Ashy wildfire sediment on Los Angeles County beaches does not contain chemicals at a level that pose a danger to human health, the public health department says.

Depending on where sediment cores are collected, scientists are able to learn many novel things about Earth's history and dynamics. For example, samples retrieved from places known as Pacific ...

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Tests in Key West show sediment stirred up by cruise ships, which can harm marine life, routinely exceed federal standards. Key West has responded by suspending the tests.

Sediment can form in both red and white wine. Neither is harmful, and for some consumers it is a positive – evidence that the producer hasn’t interfered with the wine too much.

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the southernmost reach of the river, where it meets the Gulf.

Tulane University graduate student Augustine Nwokoye removes a water sample from the PS 200 isokinetic sediment sampler in the Lower Mississippi River Delta on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

A boat cruises along Lake Powell near Page, Arizona. The equivalent of 30,000 dump truck loads of sediment are deposited in the lake daily. Rick Bowmer/AP Photo ...

Scanning electron microscope image of diatom, Paralia sulcata. Joanne Egan, Author provided (no reuse). Not only can these sediments reveal information about past climates, but also that ...

Something wonderful is happening in the geology department at Cal Poly Humboldt right now. Ten undergraduate students from ...

Many high-mountain rivers in Asia transport more sediment downstream compared to a few years ago. Changes in sediment levels have a particularly strong impact on agriculture, water quality, flood ...

If nothing is done regarding the sediment flowing into Lake Powell, it will take approximately 750 years to be considered a mud lake. Though that might not sound imminent, it would likely lose its ...