I Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s Ex
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By , on December 15th, 2010 Leave a comment   Environmental Sciences, Geology, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , , , , ,  

I’m a contrarian. Majority consensus makes me shudder. I just like rooting for underdogs*. Those undersea ridges at the boundaries of tectonic plates, spewing molten magma to form new crust are o’ so popular these days. Spreading plate boundaries…meh. What I do like is new research basically stating, and I am paraphrasing here, that spreading . . . → Read More: I Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s Ex

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From the Editor’s Desk: Obama and the Environment
From the Editor’s Desk: Obama and the Environment avatar

By , on November 15th, 2010 5 comments   Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Industry & Government, Mining, Oil Spills   , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

Obama’s Pledge on the Environment “We cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. Global warming is not a someday problem, it is now. We are already breaking records with the intensity of our storms, the number of forest fires, the periods of drought. By 2050 . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Obama and the Environment

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Around the net…
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By , on May 11th, 2009 Leave a comment   Art, Microbes, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , , , ,  

Bloom carbon won’t sink Scientists studying the fate of carbon particles originating in Southern Ocean plankton blooms find that the carbon never reaches the deep seafloor. This delivers another blow to iron fertilization experiments hoping to sequester carbon in the deep-sea. Deep-sea robotic laboratory The first-ever robotic deep-ocean DNA laboratory was deployed at 640 m . . . → Read More: Around the net…

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Dumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our Problems
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By , on February 11th, 2009 Leave a comment   Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government   , , , , ,  

Mention any carbon sequestration scheme and inevitably someone’s original idea is to dump it into the deep. All these plans share 1)an out -of-site out-of-mind attitude and 2) ignorance about processes in the deep. So pardon me if I don’t get too excited about the new scheme to save us all. Rick and Miriam have . . . → Read More: Dumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our Problems

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CO2: Good or Bad
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By , on June 18th, 2008 One comment   Conservation & Environment   , ,  

Guardian Online is running a couple of responses to Wallace Broecker’s call for carbon storage experiments in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Worth reading all to understand the pros and cons for yourself. CO2 disposal in the ocean is a dangerous distraction Deep divisions