California’s salmon fishery reopens this spring after three years of devastating closures — and the forecast is the strongest in years. But the comeback story isn’t about wet winters or dam removals. It’s about what happened on April 11, 2023, when Kamchatka’s Shiveluch volcano blasted iron-rich ash across the North Pacific, replenishing vital dust to the ocean pastures where salmon put on 95 percent of their body weight. From Alaska’s 119 million pink salmon to California’s record jack returns, the 2023 ocean-entry cohorts are coming home strong everywhere. The volcano told us what the medicine is. The question is whether we’ll act before the next silent years return.
The “most important graph in the world” now has 2025 data. The news is worse than ever. Over just 25 years of satellite observation, the…
“Who Will Speak for the Fish?” Some years ago, a great salmon scientist lay dying. He had given his entire long life to understanding the…
“I am haunted by waters” And at long last I have good news for those of us who love Atlantic Salmon and share a particular…
Long before forests covered the continents, long before animals walked the land, long before humans appeared, these tiny organisms were already transforming the planet, lovingly preparing it for all.
Ocean pasture restoration flips the old “drop in the ocean” metaphor on its head. By restoring missing mineral dust with nature-based techniques, we revive marine ecosystems, combat acidification, and cool the climate—proving every single drop and mote of dust can be made to truly count.
Crossing the Acid Line: Why Ocean Recovery Depends on Restoring Nature’s Mineral Dust Cycle By Russ George – Forest and Ocean Ecologist, Experimental Physicist, and…
Do we stand by and do nothing, or do we do something to preserve life as we like it? Children Help Your Mother In the…
“Give me a half a shipload of iron and I’ll give you a replenished and restored Blue Planet.” Introduction For centuries, scientists have puzzled over…
In the late 1980s, oceanographer John Martin quipped, “Give me half a tanker of iron, and I’ll give you an ice age.” Martin’s meticulous 20…
Mother Natures Red Dust Miracle Comes To Australia’s And The Worlds Rescue Massive Australian Dust Storm Approaching The Size Of The 2009 Dust Storm Is…
Life in the world’s oceans depends upon and is sustained by iron and phytoplankton Oceans, especially those areas far from land, biologically modifies, optimizes, and…
Decades ago in my youth I was an avid canoeist, water seemed to be my preferred habitat It has taken a lifetime of stormy experiences…
The second largest iceberg ever with ice accumulated over tens of thousands of years is about break free. The iceberg part of the Larsen C…
Frozen polar regions like Greenland accumulate mineral dust over the course of their endless succession of long winters. When the ice eventually reaches the sea…
Newly Published Research Proves Ocean Pasture Plankton Has For All Of Time Saved The World From Global Warming. Deep-sea corals reveal how healthy ocean plankton…
Iron is the single most important element in our world’s oceans and to you and I. It empowers efficient photosynthesis and without it ocean pasture…
Ocean Genomics Businessman Craig Venter Works To Unravel Ocean Iron Mystery Recent research spotlights illuminates a microbial ‘lichen-like’ partnership between ocean bacteria and phytoplankton Commensal algae…
Iron, one of the most common elements on earth, is the rarest, most precious, most vital element influencing ocean life Iron is heavy and sinks…