Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a ...
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 ...
How plastic sinks to the deep sea — over time, sunlight and waves break large plastic items into tiny fragments that stick to ...
The team uses seawater and delicate mesh filters to painstakingly separate the buoyant plastic by hand. The goal is to ...
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 ...
Abstract: The global cryosphere – the frozen water domain – is experiencing unprecedented change. To match this rapid pace, innovative technological approaches and interdisciplinary engineering ...
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 ...
A study in China this year indicated that the concentration of microplastics was markedly higher in snow than in rainwater.
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 ...
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