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Bacteria hitching a ride on "marine snow" may slow the ocean's carbon sink
March 11, 2026
WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, March 11 [Category: Environment] -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution issued the following news release:

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Bacteria hitching a ride on "marine snow" may slow the ocean's carbon sink

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Woods Hole, Mass. (March 11, 2026)-In some parts of the deep ocean, it can look like it's snowing. This "marine snow" is the constant fall of organic debris, including dead plankton, fecal pellets, an . . .

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