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…
International consortia of experts declare whales are potent ecosystem geoengineers It’s uplifting to see a newly published paper in which an international who’s who team…
Many scientific reports show inexplicable behaviours of plants that seem to be analogs to animal senses, behaviours, and perhaps even intellect. This observation of complex…
Dust from the Sahara and Sahel region of North Africa frequently blows west in giant dust storms that stretch across the entire Atlantic Ocean. Just…
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are producing a global greening of terrestrial plant life around the world while eradicating ocean plants. More grass growing means…
Goldilocks eddies, not too big not too small, are self sustaining garden oases for ocean life. New space radar movies reveal new secrets of these ocean wonders.
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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….