From the sunlit top 200 meters of the sea, plankton carcasses, excrement and molt particles constantly drift toward the depths. As this so-called marine snow sinks, the bits can clump together or ...

The Arctic's ice cover could dip below a crucial threshold as soon as 2027, and will do so inevitably in the next 20 years if ...

The researchers aim to enhance the efficiency of the biological pump—a cycle that transfers carbon from the atmosphere to the ...

They absorb carbon, which sinks to the sea floor in particles called 'marine snow.' A new study sheds light on just how this process works.

Colder with lows around 15. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 50 percent. Mainland Ocean County - Cloudy with a chance of snow in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight.

In recent years, billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the ocean around Alaska due to warmer ocean temperatures which likely caused them to starve to death, as per scientists, CNN reported ...