From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is teeming with life. But some of its most diverse and fascinating biomes are thriving in ...

The sinkhole that closed I-80 east since Feb. 11 has gotten worse causing state transportation officials to announce the ...

From gas pipelines to fiber optic cables, subsurface utilities form the backbone of urban infrastructure. Discover the innovative techniques used to locate and maintain these systems, such as ...

The first global study to embrace this huge question, conducted at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, reveals astonishingly high microbial diversity in some subsurface ...

"The two methods we used in the study revealed a detailed subsurface profile of the region," Weller said. The clay soil of the landscape is frequently studied geochemically due to its economic ...

The two most important processes that currently cause subsidence in the shallow subsurface are the compression of clay and the oxidation of peat. On their turn, these are largely caused by groundwater ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, ...