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: ...

A new study has uncovered alarming evidence that plastic pollution is reaching even deeper into the ocean than we previously thought. Researchers found that "marine snow" — the steady fall of organic ...

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to investigate the inner workings of the ocean's carbon cycle. A series of storms ...

“Doesn’t it feel otherworldly out here?” says Colleen Durkin from the lower deck of the Rachel Carson as it glides out from the Moss Landing Harbor more than an hour before sunrise. Durkin, the lead ...