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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to the year of the plastic menace, a nonstop flow of terrible news about how the ocean and its organisms are choking on macroplastic, while microplastic particles—bits less than 5 millimeters ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DÜBENDORF, Switzerland (StudyFinds.org) – ...

Factory pollution is changing the weather—but not in the way you might think. The tiny aerosol pollution particles poured out by industrial factories can trigger ice to form in the atmosphere, ...

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It has puzzled scientists for years whether and how bacteria, that live from dissolved organic matter in marine waters, can ...

DÜBENDORF, Switzerland (StudyFinds.org) – For those who love to catch the fresh falling snow on their tongues, beware, that might actually be plastic falling from the sky! Researchers from Switzerland ...