Marine microbes live on and feed on marine snow
(WorldNews Environment)

We had our first official snow this past week, a beautiful fluffy carpet of snow on our lawns and shrubbery. This is why people live in New England, we like snow, we like to live in snow and revel in its beauty. It turns out that there is another kind of snow that you won`t find in the mountains, but offshore instead — marine snow, which can be just as magical and hauntingly beautiful as real snow.I think I first heard about marine snow from Rachel Carson. In her 1951 book `The Sea ......