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.

Human waste, mostly plastic, was found in abundance at the deepest part of the Mediterranean called the Calypso Deep, 3.1 ...

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Genetic analysis reveals bluebottles are actually four distinct species, overturning two centuries of scientific belief.

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Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...