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…
Climate Changes To Winds Diminishes Antarctic Krill And Plankton In a paper just published this week in Nature by a Rutgers University team it is…
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…
Seabirds, are tied both to the health of the ocean ecosystem and to global climate regulation The relationship, indeed control phytoplankton have over the global…
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…
The International Court of Justice finally banned the hunting of whales by Japan earlier this year. It even looked for a few weeks that the…
The British Royal Society in 2008 called for experiments with ocean pasture replenishment and restoration. The very same experiments we completed in 2012. And guess…
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 a new paper in the science journal PNAS the long known role of seabirds is reported anew. Seabirds flock to plankton blooms and in…
The New Scientist magazine says the IPCC call for “geoengineering” is a call to create the largest industry in human history. The proof is at hand that what we need to create is a one of the smaller industries in human history.
Au contraire New Scientist, we just need 100 tiny villages working on a common summer “dream” job. More like the smallest industry in human history!
Confirming what I’ve been going on about for nigh unto 20 years high and rising CO2 in the air is growing more and bushier plants…
There are some people who walk apart from the madding crowds of the dull and boring. One such in the world of ocean science was…
Greenland adds vital nutrient to ocean Reuters March 11, 2013 A melt of Greenland’s ice is washing large amounts of the nutrient iron into the…
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…
Ocean Pasture Restoration: Can We Afford To Postpone Exploring This Option?
Climate Change: Current Issues 2011 Provided in cooperation with: Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW). Paper provided by Kiel Institute for the World Economy in its series Open…