Carbon storage has been a key focus in recent years to draw down natural and anthropogenic sources of carbon dioxide and help the fight against global warming, and particularly focuses on terrestrial ...

This story is a part of the ongoing Back 40 series, where HCN reporters look at national trends and their impacts close to home. In October 2014, Paonia Reservoir, a skinny, 3-mile-long basin tucked ...

In 2021, while revelers across America celebrated the fourth of July, three researchers waded through a shallow river delta in the New Mexican desert. Abby Eckland, Irina Overeem and Brandee Carlson ...

VALLEJO (CBS SF) -- City crews have flushed the system impacted by sediment in the water of Vallejo's Swanzy Reservoir affecting about 1,000 households, city officials said Sunday afternoon. Earlier, ...

The study covered a small, shallow lake, intensively used for recreation (sailing, tourist services and port infrastructure). This study aimed to determine the spatial differentiation of bottom ...

The studies were carried out on undisturbed sediment cores taken from two sites (near an inflow and in the dam area) at two small retention reservoirs located in SE Poland (Fig. 1). The most important ...

The ancient Maya city of Tikal relied on urban reservoirs to supply water during periods of drought. They essentially built “constructed wetlands” that relied upon key minerals and aquatic plants and ...

Silt-laden water spills over the top of Matilija Dam, operated by the Casitas Municipal Water District, near Ventura, California. Its reservoir is almost full of sediment, and a new plan for removing ...

A new study examines the influences of a river dam on the fate of sediments and nutrients on an estuary, using the Conowingo Dam and the Chesapeake Bay as a case study. University of Maryland Center ...

The newly confirmed reservoir stretches from offshore New Jersey to Maine and may contain enough water to supply New York ...

Sediment that is discoloring the upper Roaring Fork River from the draining of Grizzly Reservoir is being tested for heavy-metal toxicity, and while an angler and an aquatic biologist said they have ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A freshwater reservoir hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor off the U.S ...