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 ...

Lake Powell’s retreat is revealing a lost world covered in deep piles of sedimentary sludge. A group of adventurers and ...

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 ...

Low flows on the Rio Grande upstream of Elephant Butte Reservoir in south-central New Mexico in September 2022. Sediment carried by rivers can settle in reservoirs and gradually reduce their ...

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, ...

Sediment RC is a key indicator of benthic habitat quality. Its stability influences the biogeochemical cycling of organic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lake Powell • As the Colorado River approaches the still waters of Lake Powell, the pace of the current quickens. Chains of standing waves form out of nowhere, grow in size until they are capped with ...