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…
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…
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…
Here’s why our collective focus on high and rising CO2 as an agent of global warming and climate change is misplaced. But at the same…
For billions of years when this planet was first learning about life, the only form of life of the planet were the cyanobacteria, the Blue…
Beginning 600 hundred million years ago and for hundreds of millions of years plankton bloomed. They harvested CO2 from the primordial atmosphere and stored energy…