Copepod awesomesauce
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By , on October 5th, 2011 5 comments   Carnivals & Link Love, Organisms, Plankton   ,  

Check this out: That right there is one gorgeous copepod, one of the bigger and more important groups of planktonic crustaceans. It looks huge but is actually tiny; probably 1-2mm. This is what they normally look like on a light microscope: You can see how much richer and more detailed the top image is (although . . . → Read More: Copepod awesomesauce

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Iron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming
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By , on March 24th, 2009 9 comments   Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, New Research, Weather   , , , , , , , , , , ,  

BERLIN (AFP) — Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has “dampened hopes” that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in the Southern Ocean can lessen global warming. The experiment involved “fertilising” a 300-square-kilometre (115-sqare-mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy — an immense rotating column of water . . . → Read More: Iron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming

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