A new study suggests that plastic pollution is removed from the ocean's surface in the same process that moves carbon and nutrients to the deep sea. ScienceAlert reported on a new study from the Royal ...

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: ...

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 ...

SINKER is an innovative new instrument equipped with advanced microscopes and cameras to collect detailed data about carbon sinking in marine snow. The ocean is Earth's largest carbon sink, playing a ...