New report shows ocean pastures bloom with the seasons and enrich the ocean with oxygen to far greater depths than formerly believed. The spring blooms…
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…
California’s Dying Ocean Becoming A Lifeless Blue Desert As Sea Lions, Seabirds, and Sardines Starve To Death In Greatest Numbers Ever Recorded While many argue…
Seabirds dying by the tens of thousands, perhaps millions, in the Eastern Pacific All along the west coast of North America from British Columbia south…
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…
Perhaps you never imagined space is home to plankton. Reports are now proliferating that scientists have discovered Earthly plankton in space has taken up residence…
New Scientific Reports Add Proof That Tiny Bits Of Plankton Lofted Into The Air Create Clouds And Rain Drops California’s drought could be resolved by…
Crisis of high and rising mercury in the oceans is growing worse Amount of toxic mercury to double by 2050 Nature’s cure is at hand…
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…
Winter storms a few months ago brought reports of thousands of sea birds dead on the beaches of Europe. We reported the dire state of…
The Canadian federal inquiry into B.C.’s Fraser River sockeye fishery cost at least $37.3 million. While the $37 million in legal charges returned no additional…
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…
This is the first of what we hope will be a long series of reports from our resident Mermaids. Finally there are reports surfacing that…
The New York Times DotEarth Blog has a posting about me and my work. My 2012 ocean pasture restoration project nourished and is bringing hundreds…
Sardines And Other Plankton Feeding Forage Fish Decline The desperate state of forage fish is resulting in the Pacific Fishery Management Council making radical new…
Ocean plankton produce clouds as they thrive Ocean plankton is the largest natural factor of this blue planet when it comes to managing CO2 (and…
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…
Big or small it seems life’s creatures all display similar habits. This week in Science, researchers from MIT and elsewhere report that planktonic microbes in…
Many scientific reports show inexplicable behaviours of plants that seem to be analogs to animal senses, behaviours, and perhaps even intellect. This observation of complex…
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are producing a global greening of terrestrial plant life around the world while eradicating ocean plants. More grass growing means…