The deep ocean can often look like a real-life snow globe. As organic particles from plant and animal matter on the surface ...

This diffusion‑limited regime likely dominates for fluffier aggregates made of phytoplankton remains, fecal pellets, or ...

In a twist on conventional wisdom, researchers have discovered that in ocean-like fluids with changing density, tiny porous particles can sink faster than larger ones, thanks to how they absorb salt.

Supported by NASA's interdisciplinary EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) field campaign, researchers sequenced DNA from 800 individual particles of marine snow and ...

They found marine snow particles don't fall quite as scientists expected. Instead, they're slowed down by invisible mucus around the particle, which creates drag in the water like a parachute.

On average, the mucus causes the marine snow particles to linger twice as long in the upper 100 meters of the ocean as they otherwise would, Chajwa and colleagues determined.

The results are devastating: In its highest concentrations in Bavarian snow, microplastic particles numbered 150,000 per liter. In Arctic snow, the highest sampling was less at 14,000 per liter, ...

But according to new research, snow acts as a sink for an assortment of toxic particles. That means that what looks like a pure white treat might actually be dangerous to your health. Don't eat ...

Global warming could transform Hokkaido’s iconic powdered snow into the wet flakes found on Japan’s main island of Honshu, a study showed. Researchers from Hokkaido University and the Japan ...

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.