Marine snow carries carbon to the deep ocean, but bacteria feeding on the particles can dissolve their calcium carbonate ballast. This slows sinking and may reduce how effectively the ocean stores ...

Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.

Bacteria hitchhiking on marine snow can dissolve its calcium carbonate ballast, slowing the particles’ descent.

The findings could reshape how climate scientists model carbon sequestration – the natural or engineered process by which carbon dioxide gas is removed from the atmosphere – and ocean carbon cycling ...

NYU researchers have found a way to use light to control how microscopic particles assemble into crystals, effectively ...

Bacteria riding on sinking ocean particles can erode the mineral ballast that helps those particles descend, slowing the delivery of carbon to the deep sea and potentially weakening one of the ...