After a wildfire, the danger continues, especially during torrential rain that can set off fast-moving landslides known as ...

About 2,000 miles downriver, the debate over how to fix Louisiana’s coast is dominated by sediment, including sand and mud that never reaches Louisiana. NASA scientists estimate that the ...

Even some single-celled phytoplankton form plates around their body using calcium carbonate, which eventually contribute to the sediment. Over geologic time, the mud is compacted and cemented by ...

Storms now pounding Southern California are raising the specter of more danger for residents—debris flows in areas already ...

Y., who has taken measures to secure a patent. This invention is intended to keep the boiler clear from sediment and mud, an accumulation of which, as every one knows, is exceedingly detrimental ...

Elizabeth Thomas, UB assistant professor of geology, holds a sediment core -- a cylindrical sample of lakebed mud. Such samples contain organic matter that can be analyzed to learn about a region ...

The sediment flows into Big Chico Creek from upstream of the Five Mile Dam, creating a situation where neither the city nor ...