Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Sugars from the ocean are responsible for a large part of the ice nuclei over southern hemisphere <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-07-sugars-salty-ocean-responsible-large.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-07-sugars-s</span><span class="invisible">alty-ocean-responsible-large.html</span></a> Paper by Susan Hartmann et al.: <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c08014" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.e</span><span class="invisible">st.4c08014</span></a></p><p>"ice-forming molecules (affecting cloud formation) produced by <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> & <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protists</span></a> in seawater can enter the atmosphere... there was a lack of knowledge about the chemical identity of these molecules... polysaccharides could be the missing piece of the puzzle"</p>