Oceans contain far more plant life than land. The Southern Ocean has for decades been reported as holding the most phytoplankton of all the oceans….
Phytoplankton are now shown to be able to make use of extremely low levels of sunlight. Researchers have discovered how algae that survive in very…
Ocean pastures have a close-knit relationship with pastures on land. They are both defined by their plant life, the grass and plankton of their pastures….
Ocean science, as exemplified by the Redfield Ratio, is wrought with scientific theory that over the years has become dogma now shown to be flawed….
About 56 million years ago, a pulse of carbon dioxide (source unknown) that surged into the atmosphere sent global temperatures soaring. In the oceans, that…
Phytoplankton — tiny ocean plants — are the most important form of life on Earth. They supply us with most of the oxygen we breathe…
So you’ve heard about the Earth actually being 71% ocean but what does that look like.
I was recently once again engaged in the never-ending semantic distraction and explaining the etymology and use of the word “geoengineering.” Here’s a brief explanation…
Food aid for those most in need is both a question of charity and a question of available food. Last fall when our pasture fed…
Last week Britain’s and Europeans were dismayed when they were warned of the clogging Sahara dust coating everything from cars to lungs. The Sahara had…
A tour de force scientific paper published in the Journal PLOS One confirms the critical role ocean pasture conditions have on salmon returns. Scientists have long…
The central California coastal town of Monterey was the setting of John Steinbeck’s depression period novel Cannery Row. The story revolves around the people living there: Lee…
In the ocean little goes to waste. But even that waste is pure gold to oceanographer David Siegel, director of the Earth Research Institute at U.C….
Puffins are seabirds that are especially wonderful and beautiful to watch. They frequent the ocean far from shore where they feed on all manner of…
The International Court of Justice finally banned the hunting of whales by Japan earlier this year. It even looked for a few weeks that the…
A new paper reports on the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean pastures over the past 40 years. As the ocean fish pastures collapse mother fish…
If you have ever wondered at the wonder of vitamins keep in mind that it’s not only humans who need them. Vitamins are essential micro-nutrients…
More than 30 years ago John Martin unravelled the vital role of iron, that arrives with dust in the wind, has on ocean plankton blooms….
In a new paper in the science journal PNAS the long known role of seabirds is reported anew. Seabirds flock to plankton blooms and in…
This is a new film (late 2013) that tells the story of how Atlantic Salmon are dying at sea. While the film seems to think…