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…
Today, Ash Wednesday, is the holiest day for dust Today is the one day of the year when dust is venerated for the life that…
Data from satellites have confirmed that ocean pastures west of California have suffered the worst collapse ever measured, 35% of pasture productivity was lost in…
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…
We can restore the Atlantic Cod back to historic abundance in just a few years. An open letter to The Pew Charitable Trusts We just…
FORBES is writing again about how ocean plankton might help save the world. FORBES writer Tim Worstall has penned another good article that supports our…
This is the first of what we hope will be a long series of reports from our resident Mermaids. Finally there are reports surfacing that…
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…
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…
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….
High CO2 results in declining dust in the wind, in ancient times less dust meant less iron reached oceans to sustain plant life. A new…
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 this fantastic view of dust and other aerosols on the planet we can see the link between land and sea. Just as rain must…
More grass growing means less dust blowing. There is a yin and yang to the life of plants on this planet. Our planet has two…