"Pervasive." Scientists issue warning after discovering disturbing underwater 'snow' phenomenon: 'Millions of tons' first ...

"We were disappointed and astonished," said data scientist Tim Keyes, who helped lead the project, to the Adirondack Daily ...

Rain doesn’t bounce and snow doesn’t bounce. But hail and sleet bounce when they hit the ground. Hail can be round or spikey ...

Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea. Yet the reality ...

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...

Scientists found that even if all plastic dumping stopped today, floating plastics would take over 100 years to vanish.

The team uses seawater and delicate mesh filters to painstakingly separate the buoyant plastic by hand. The goal is to ...

Abstract: The global cryosphere – the frozen water domain – is experiencing unprecedented change. To match this rapid pace, innovative technological approaches and interdisciplinary engineering ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Tiny, sinking flakes of detritus in the ocean fall more slowly thanks to the goop that surrounds each flake, new observations reveal. The invisible mucus makes “comet tails” that surround ...

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 ...

Ants, as a group, are creatures of habit. While an individual’s path isn’t certain, biologists who have spent a lot of time watching the behavior of entire colonies can predict the average time any ...