OAKLAND, Calif. - As part of the National Wastewater Surveillance System, California’s health and water officials coordinate with wastewater utilities, local health departments, universities, and ...

For the next few weeks, the state’s marine monitoring team will collect sediment and organism samples across Puget Sound EVERETT — Holding a hard hat decorated with a “Got Mud?” sticker, Sandy ...

The smell that wafts off of the ocean is instantly recognizable: Sometimes it smells fresh and clean, but other times it’s a little clammy, briny, or sulfuric. That smell actually indicates a ...

Two water-based mud (WBM) and one potassium-based mud (PBM) drilling fluid systems emerged as alternatives to non-aqueous based fluids (NAFs) in testing at the Silurian Dadas shale of southeast Turkey ...

Microscopic shells have been used by geologists at the University of St Andrews to chart the earth's climate over millions of years. They have concluded that it is three million years since current ...

A whiff of charred wood comes off the piles of black mud that are dumped daily into the ocean at Goleta Beach County Park, part of the cleanup of Montecito in the wake of the catastrophic January 9 ...