When we think of snow, we usually think of winter. But did you know that it is always snowing in the ocean? Read more about marine snow.

In the deep ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, it looks like it's snowing. At those depths, the water is filled with slowly drifting particles known as "marine snow," part of a never-ending ...

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to ...

Marine snow—a mixture of dead plankton, waste, mucus, and other organic material slowly sinking from the ocean’s surface—is an important, but poorly understood, part of the ocean carbon cycle. Credit: ...

Newly discovered microscopic mucus tails – trailing from particles of marine snow particles – slow these particles’ descent into the deep ocean, research finds. This doubles the particles’ residence ...

It has puzzled scientists for years whether and how bacteria, that live from dissolved organic matter in marine waters, can carry out N 2 fixation. It was assumed that the high levels of oxygen ...

Marine snow -- a mixture of dead phytoplankton, bacteria, fecal pellets, and other organic particles -- absorbs about a third of human-made carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and shuttles it down to ...

When it comes to climate change, the oceans have been doing us a big favor. They absorb carbon, which sinks to the sea floor in particles called 'marine snow.' A new study sheds light on just how this ...

The oceans play a big role in preventing the Earth from getting even hotter due to climate change. That's thanks to the ocean's natural waste... How dead stuff at the bottom of the ocean helps slow ...