Global warming that has slowed down over the last 15 years is partly the result of many small volcanic eruptions. At top August 2014 eruption…
Winds and Tides and Swimming Plankton Each Provide One Trillion Watts Of Power To Drive The Motion Of Ocean Waters Swirling ocean pasture eddies are…
Following another season of shrinking sea ice Arctic Ocean life has been blessed with a doubling of plankton bloom cycles. Historically, phyto-plankton began to bloom…
Perhaps you never imagined space is home to plankton. Reports are now proliferating that scientists have discovered Earthly plankton in space has taken up residence…
New Scientific Reports Add Proof That Tiny Bits Of Plankton Lofted Into The Air Create Clouds And Rain Drops California’s drought could be resolved by…
Int’l Pacific Salmon Commission Reports 170% More Sockeye Than Historic 2010 Run Arriving In A Sockeye Tsunami Ocean salmon pasture restoration credited with bringing back…
Ocean Life Is Drawn To Ocean Eddies They Are Oases In A Vast Blue Desert Ocean eddies are commonly bigger than a city and filled…
Will The Largest Mine Waste Disaster In History In Canada Destroy The Largest Salmon Run In History A study in Ecological Applications reveals incredibly small…
Crisis of high and rising mercury in the oceans is growing worse Amount of toxic mercury to double by 2050 Nature’s cure is at hand…
Dusty times provide iron to grow rich ocean plankton pastures Like humans, phytoplankton (tiny plants that drift on ocean currents) need iron to survive. The…
Our ability to observe and measure dust around the world is best served by the satellite fleet. Those observations show a great decline in vital…
The fate of CO2 is that most of it ends up in the oceans. In this post I am making a try at explaining physical…
Catching Wild Seafoods Consumes A Lot Of Diesel Fuel Robert Parker, a young fisheries scientist at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, in Australia, and Peter…
A great mystery about how CO2 in ocean water is converted into solid carbonates is solved This explains the formation of vast regions of carbonate…
Here’s a great video about sentient forests where trees and fungi communicate over vast distances. Professor Suzanne Simard of the University of British Columbia gives a…
Ocean Pastures Are Found In All The World’s Oceans – Even The Frozen Ones. When all above is still locked up in a frozen wasteland,…
Ocean plankton produce clouds as they thrive Ocean plankton is the largest natural factor of this blue planet when it comes to managing CO2 (and…
Ocean eddies are growing “The ocean temperatures east of Tasmania are some of the fastest rising in the world,” said Iain Suthers, a professor at…
What’s your pick of the most important thing that swims in the ocean? Is it the giant Blue Whale, the largest beast that has ever…
Big or small it seems life’s creatures all display similar habits. This week in Science, researchers from MIT and elsewhere report that planktonic microbes in…