Anyone who has ever dived into the ocean has seen the tiny white flecks drifting through the water like snow. This so-called marine snow is made of sinking debris, fragments of dead plankton, bits of ...

In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it's snowing. This "marine snow" is the dust and detritus that organisms slough off as they die and decompose. Marine snow can fall several kilometers ...

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on very limited resources. But new research from the University of Southern ...

In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it’s snowing. This “marine snow” is the dust and detritus that organisms slough off as they die and decompose. Marine snow can fall several kilometers ...

As any diver knows, oceans can be cloudy places. Even on sunny days, snow-like particles drift through the water column, obscuring the aquatic world below. Scientists have long known that this “marine ...

Snow and ice act as critical regulators of Earth’s climate by reflecting incoming solar radiation back to space. Deposition of light-absorbing particles—including black carbon, mineral dust and ...