Deep-sea sediment cores are vital to our understanding of the past and present oceans ... Microfossils are the skeletal remains of marine organisms that either floated in the water column or lived on ...

Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is well documented, but ...

These plumes of sediment would likely disrupt deep sea creatures’ ability to swim, breathe, find marine snow to eat, and ...

Douglas S Fudge and his team created a specialized tank of transparent gelatin in order to visualize how the hagfish behave and locomote within sediments. Hagfish are bottom-dwelling marine ...

The Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology researches marine bacteria that transform ... These bacteria display widely varying adaptations, e.g. to food gradients in sediments, to low and high ...

New research published in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science reveals that microplastics often accumulate on the deep sea floor in the same place as diverse and dense marine life communities. This ...

Intensive seabed trawling may accelerate carbon emissions, as new research reveals its disruptive impact on ocean sediments.

Research sheds new light on the spread of microplastics, revealing a surprising "hitchhiking" mechanism that could impact ...