Researchers digging more than 13 feet into the parched floor of Chile’s Atacama Desert have found evidence of something long thought unlikely there: microbial communities persisting beneath one of the ...

The quality of surface water is intimately linked to the dynamic interplay between hydrological processes and contaminant behaviour in sediments. Natural and anthropogenic influences modulate chemical ...

Yet despite their dramatic appearance at the water surface, the earliest stages of these events often unfold quietly and invisibly below. This study shows that algal blooms can begin days earlier than ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

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