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…
“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…
When the Dust Blows, the Salmon Grow Why Replenishing Nature’s Missing Dust Is the Key to Restoring North Pacific Fisheries The image above shows the…
This is the story about how good things begin. I describe an unconventional partnership — a rock star, a schooner, and a scientist intent on testing a simple but profound idea: that dust from the land feeds life in the sea.
We see the shoreline. We see the surface. And we imagine we see the bottom of the ocean. We see or even imagine very little of the in-between
Each Ocean Pasture To Deliver Over a Gigatonne of CO₂e Mitigation Annually Our planet’s oceans cover approximately 71% of Earth’s surface and are home to…
Restoring the Albedo of Cooling Clouds Needs Restored Fresh Air Not Air Pollution As policymakers, financiers, and tech leaders search for multi-billion dollar business plans…
The Dangerous Drift Away from Real-World Experimentation in Ocean and Fisheries Science In the world of science, once defined by salt-streaked lab notebooks and wind-battered…
Massive Runaway Methane Derives From Natural Methane And Collapse Of Natural Ocean Counterbalance Many “scientists” are hustling to proclaim this is a mystery that demands…
Will World Be Saved From Ravages Of Climate Change By Plankton Massive Surge In Arctic Ocean Plankton Blooms See World Acclaiming Power Of Ocean Pastures…
Eastern Atlantic Ocean Plankton Pastures Where Sardines Once Found Plankton A Plenty Have Become Clear Blue Deserts Sardines, a staple food of Europe for more…
HMS Challenger Sailed The World 1872-76 Following A Refit That Hammered Its Cannons Into Ocean Science Plowshares Sailing over 70,000 miles in the greatest ocean…
My Hypotheses Is Mother Nature Rules This Planets Climate With Her Plankton Blooms Her ocean pastures where the phytoplankton blooms consume and use more energy…
Think humanity’s greenhouse gases are most important for global warming and climate change, think again. Zooplankton, tiny animals that perform synchronous swimming in countless multitudes…
Climate Change Is The Biggest Issue For Most Earthlings For many whose lives depend on the natural health and abundance of the oceans, restoring their…
The word plankton comes from a Greek word πλαγκτός pronounced ‘planktos’ meaning drifters. Our blue planet is really the plankton planet as they outnumber by…
Plankton Loss Produced Global Ecosystem Chaos When They Stopped Repurposing CO2 Into New Life This loss of ocean photosynthesis immediately made the oceans acidic Today’s…
Ocean Pastures Are Tended By Tiny Zooplankton Farmers Every night these tiny creatures are in the surface pastures tending and feeding their plankton blooms By…