Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago.The findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, ...

Deep-sea sediment cores are vital to our understanding of the past and present oceans. They record the geological history of the ocean basins, providing evidence for changing climates, emerging ...

For thousands of years, the Aegean Sea has been a crossroads of civilizations, from Bronze Age kingdoms to the cultural and military might of ancient Greece and Rome. But alongside their art, ...

[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...

Local and federal officials had initially planned on burying the contaminated sediment in the harbor, drawing resistance from environmental groups.

In defending the move, Widodo claimed renewed extraction would only be legal for sea-floor sediment, not sand, and removed to benefit ship movement. Mining expert Andang Bachtiar has pointed out ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. A research team led ...

Lead pollution in the Aegean Sea region may have begun around 5,200 years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

The Environment Protection Authority recently ordered that work cease on a seawall south of Adelaide after a plume of sediment erupted ... in preparation for rising sea levels under climate ...