Once again the miracle of life reveals that there are no ‘free loaders’ in Nature Tiny zooplankton like krill that graze on ocean pastures evolved…
Researchers have conducted the first global analysis of the health and productivity of ocean plants using a unique signal detected by NASA’s Aqua satellite. The results and…
It is said history repeats itself, we had better hope not! 360 million years ago it was the Devonian Age, aka ‘the greenhouse age’ and…
Planet cooling plankton blooms in the North Pacific are in peril The ~30% loss of Pacific plankton in just decades is taking away the most…
Fewer than 3% of Pacific Bluefin Tuna remain In years gone past this greatest of all the tuna grew on verdant ocean pastures to become…
Since good data started being collected in the 1950’s the loss of ocean plant life during each 5 year span equals the loss of an…
Many bemoan about how world is able to pay for wars and luxury but not to feed and save the world. They are right though…
If one only considers the usual suspects when looking to explain tuna fisheries collapse one will fail to identify both the real source of the…
The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission is calling for a dramatic 20% reduction in fishing allowances of the prized Seychelles Yellowfin tuna. Scientists say the species…
Every year scores of thousands of ships move 11 billion tons of cargo across the world’s oceans. If just one ship, just one out of…
More grass growing due to high and rising CO2 is good news for the Earth very bad news for the Oceans, that mere 72% blue…
Dust blowing from the Sahara in great dust storms known as ‘Haboobs’ like the one seen in the photo above is in catastrophic decline reported…
OK really the krill are only ‘nearly gone’ Though it might sound like a BB King Song, these real ocean blues are the worst ever…
Journal Nature Publishes Definitive Proof Of John Martin’s Iron Hypothesis Almost 30 years ago the late great ocean scientist John Martin showed how ocean plants…
Chilean Squid Deaths Blamed On Low Oxygen In Ocean Water Such low ocean oxygen calamities are a result of the collapse of ocean plankton pastures…
Earths natural thermostat found: Dust in the wind made more abundant in the dire stages of global warming will lead to global cooling (if we…
Why is it that the world doesn’t want to talk about the CO2 of yesterday? The new Paris Accord treats CO2 like a monetary crisis’…
Sydney’s Red Dawn The dust storm season of spring 2009 was particularly active. On September 22 Sydney awoke to a “Red Dawn”. The storm continued…
Just published in the Journal of Geology is a paper detailing the history of dust in the wind and it’s historic influence on ocean pastures…
The Sahara desert and the Amazon rainforest are so different and far apart one might not imagine that they share a vital ecological link. A…