EditorialA sediment sample taken from some 140 feet deep at Riverview Farm Park in Newport News, Va., where a planned recharge well will inject additional treated wastewater into the Potomac Aquifer, on Oct. 18, 2022. (Kristen Zeis/The New York Times)
EditorialThe outline of the hull of Industry in the sediment can be seen in this mosaic of images from video footage captured by the Natinoal Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. (NOAA Ocean Exploration via The New York Times)
EditorialThe outline of the hull of Industry in the sediment can be seen in this mosaic of images from video footage captured by the Natinoal Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. (NOAA Ocean Exploration via The New York Times)
EditorialA scale model of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, a key component of a $50 billion plan to save the Louisiana coast, at the Alden Research Laboratory in Holden, Mass., Jan. 29, 2020. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)
EditorialMaureen Raymo, the interim director of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, holds core samples at the observatory in Palisades, N.Y., June 18, 2020. (Melissa Bunni Elian/The New York Times)
EditorialAt a warehouse-size laboratory in Holden, Mass., patterns of sediment in a scale model of a bend in the Mississippi River show how a proposed diversion would move sand out of the river and into the basin on Jan. 29, 2020. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)