Life in the world’s oceans depends upon and is sustained by iron and phytoplankton Oceans, especially those areas far from land, biologically modifies, optimizes, and…
Plankton Loss Produced Global Ecosystem Chaos When They Stopped Repurposing CO2 Into New Life This loss of ocean photosynthesis immediately made the oceans acidic Today’s…
Headlines simultaneously urge us to cower or flower over the prospect that billions are required to meet 2050 UK climate target. The talk of billions…
Will The Next 11 Years Of Global Cooling Save Us Or Will It Save Us Some Money Both are questions of perspective and context What…
The Horror, 10,000 Paper Meta-Analysis Shows Climate Change Driving Inevitable Mass Extinction Life cannot adapt as fast as our macho human climate driving habits are…
Breaching ocean carbon threshold to greatly accelerate mass extinction As the levels of CO2/carbon in the ocean increase, a runaway cascade of feedbacks may push…
California’s Sardine Fishery Closed For Fifth Year In A Row As ocean plankton pastures collapse Sardines on North America’s West Coast are verging upon extinction…
America’s own Luquillo Rainforest in Puerto Rico is ground zero of the global insect apocalypse Far from human agriculture and pesticides, the insect apocalypse is…
Insect Apocalypse Reporting Is Catastrophically Wrong Minded The insect problem is real and we must have the correct focus on its cause if we are…
Humanity Has Depended Upon Fossil Phosphate For A Very Long Time Today fossil phosphate mineral deposits are all but mined out When they are gone…
It’s Dusty In The North Atlantic As a result, hurricanes are scarcer and weaker, Present company, Florence, excepted New scientific reports show the dust has…
Recent Astrophysical Reports Advise That By 2020 Sun Will Become Dimmer And Remain Dim for 20-50 Years The physicists warning of the global cooling effect…
Ten Years Ago I First Published The Plankton Manifesto It was the gentile warning note from our blue planet landlords admonishing us to keep the…
Whether they remain part of this blue planets ecology is up to us For shellfish it is the first moments of life that crystallize the…
Birds, like the whippoorwill, that feed on insects are rapidly disappearing. If they were canaries and we were in coal mines, the alarms would be…
The majestic Giant Bluefin Tuna were once abundant across the world’s oceans Today in some major ocean pastures they are reduced to just 3% of…
In an unimaginable tragedy for third year in a row, seabirds are washing up dead along the coastline in Alaska. This isn’t just one carnary…
All over the world insects are reported to be disappearing. They aren’t gone completely anywhere yet, but their numbers reveal far more than decimation, 75%…
In the new BBC Blue Planet television series, the melodious host makes mention of the billions of tonnes of copepods that nightly rise to the…
Today in my NewsBot terrible news was netted on the crisis of fish around the world. The ongoing plight of the Sardines of Portugal was…