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

In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it's snowing. This "marine snow" is the dust and detritus that organisms ...

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

Skiers at Stowe caught a snow devil on the slopes Tuesday.

High pressure in the deep ocean may squeeze nutrients from sinking “marine snow,” feeding deep-sea microbes and altering how ...

Snowflake size affects how much snow stays on roofs, helping explain why some storms create heavier and more dangerous snow ...

As any diver knows, oceans can be cloudy places. Even on sunny days, snow-like particles drift through the water column, obscuring the aquatic world ...

In Physics of Fluids, researchers model the way snow gathers on a roof based on snowflake size and distribution. The model considers how turbulence can affect recently landed snow and how wind can ...