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…
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…
In the middle of the clearest and most lifeless ocean on earth red iron sand beaches of the Galapagos Islands sustain an oasis of life,…
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…
People know salmon in Western Canada mostly as the gorgeous scarlet Sockeye What we are told and taught about those red sockeye and their kin…
Studies show deep ocean iron has changed little over the last 76 million years leaving only the diminishing iron from failing dust in the wind…
Scientists prove dust from the Sahara and Gobi deserts provides most of the iron found in the Atlantic ocean. While downwind of the Sahara there…
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…
Newly published work in the prestigious science journal PLoS ONE confirms the vital role fish play in recycling iron that sustains their ocean pastures. Or…
Dusty times provide iron to grow rich ocean plankton pastures Like humans, phytoplankton (tiny plants that drift on ocean currents) need iron to survive. The…
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…
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….