Marine scientist Matthew Costa is used to digging into research—literally. Over the course of his PhD program at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Costa frequently muddied his hands ...

Denitrification is a critical process that can alleviate the effects of excessive nitrogen availability in aquatic ecosystems subject to eutrophication. An important part of denitrification occurs in ...

Sediments in which archaeological finds are embedded have long been regarded by most archaeologists as unimportant by-products of excavations. However, in recent years it has been shown that sediments ...

New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown a strong correlation between sediment changes and a marked period of ...

The first global digital map of the ocean floor sediments (shown above) shows we have little clue about how the world’s biggest carbon sink works. About half the carbon emitted into the atmosphere by ...

Margit Simon works for Uni Research Climate/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway& Cardiff University, UK. She received funding from European Commission 7th Framework Marie Curie People ...

Saija Saarni a reçu des financements de AXA Research Fund. The sun is shining, and air feels surprisingly warm when we walk on a 35cm ice that covers a frozen lake in central Finland. The heavy ...