Terrible new science documenting the collapse of phytoplankton in the Indian Ocean, rate of loss is 2% per year! A rapid loss of phytoplankton, the…
Oceans are revealed as the primary management of CO2 by new satellite time series More grass growing means less dust blowing – good news for…
Ocean Death Toll is now into its 9th horrifying year. It’s vitally important to keep track of just how far into the global ocean pasture…
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…
World’s Oceans Have Blue Skies Only 10% Of The Time Blue skies smiling at me, nothing but blue skies do I see…. or so the…
Todays incessant debate over climate change is clearly an argument over solutions costing trillions and who can be made to pay. The business as usual…
Our favourite plankton rock star, Emily Hux, an incredibly populus and beautiful form of ocean life is in dire straits and we don’t mean enjoying…
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…
A paper in the Journal Science is being widely reported as portending imminent mass ocean extinctions The oceans are indeed under a severe threat but…
Winds and Tides and Swimming Plankton Each Provide One Trillion Watts Of Power To Drive The Motion Of Ocean Waters Swirling ocean pasture eddies are…
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…
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…
Ocean Pastures Are Found In All The World’s Oceans – Even The Frozen Ones. When all above is still locked up in a frozen wasteland,…
Ocean eddies are growing “The ocean temperatures east of Tasmania are some of the fastest rising in the world,” said Iain Suthers, a professor at…
What’s your pick of the most important thing that swims in the ocean? Is it the giant Blue Whale, the largest beast that has ever…
Goldilocks eddies, not too big not too small, are self sustaining garden oases for ocean life. New space radar movies reveal new secrets of these ocean wonders.
Subsidies paid to fishing fleets by their government often pays for 60% of the fuel cost. Without these privateers’ subsidies the world’s catch would be…
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…
Oceans contain far more plant life than land. The Southern Ocean has for decades been reported as holding the most phytoplankton of all the oceans….