The deep ocean can often look like a real-life snow globe. As organic particles from plant and animal matter on the surface ...

In a twist on conventional wisdom, researchers have discovered that in ocean-like fluids with changing density, tiny porous particles can sink faster than larger ones, thanks to how they absorb salt.

If you jumped into the water at this very moment, it’d be like swimming through a snow globe, hundreds of kilometers across. But these “snowflakes” are actually packets of eggs and sperm of coral.

YOKOHAMA, Japan, June 8, 2022 Kyodo JBN-AsiaNet/ -- Yokohama Hakkeijima Inc. has created a series of snow globes -"Microplastic Globe"- using plastic waste collected from the ocean as flakes ...

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the globe, with rising temperatures melting more of the reflective sea ice each year, exposing more dark, heat-absorbing water.