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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By Dr. M, on  March 24th, 2009  9 comments  Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, New Research, Weather  Alfred Wegener Institute, algae, copepod, Environmental Issues, global warming, greenhouse gas, iron, iron fertilization, phytoplankton, plankton, Southern Ocean, zooplankton By Dr. M, on March 23rd, 2009 One comment Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Critters, New Research Alfred Hitchcocks, algae, benthic, California, deep sea, diatom, Disturbance, domoic acid, Environmental Issues, flux, memory loss, neurotoxic, oyster, particles, poisoning, sediment trap, shellfish, surface production, The Birds Some of the species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are nasty little diatoms. They produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin typically to blame for all sorts of marine vertebrate deaths. Alfred Hitcocks’s 1963 film “The Birds” dramatizes a bird attack incident blamed on domoic acid. Human consumption of shellfish that has filtered Pseudo-nitzschia leads to amnesic shellfish . . . → Read More: Nerve Toxins In The Deep
By Dr. M, on March 12th, 2009 5 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, New Research anthropogenic, Biodiversity, biological and chemical weapons, conservation, deep sea, ecologist, economics, energy, energy flows, Environmental Issues, Eugene Odum, famous ecologist, marine conservation, policy, Savannah River Plant, tactical oil spills, war, warfare Six months ago in the yesteryear of 2008, Machlis and Hanson outlined in Bioscience a new subfield of study titled warfare ecology. As the authors state “among human activities causing ecological change, ware is both intensive and far-reaching. Yet environmental research related to warfare is limited in depth and fragmented by discipline.” The paper is . . . → Read More: Warfare Ecology
I’m spending the holidays in Lancaster County, PA – America’s first inland city. That’s Long’s Park on the left. These are my old stomping grounds- about 100 miles from the nearest deep-sea habitat off the coast of New Jersey. You feel the connection to the oceans, though, as you drive through picturesque farm fields . . . → Read More: Lancaster, the Chesapeake Bay, and Blue Crabs
By Dr. M, on February 11th, 2007 32 comments Conservation & Environment Environmental Issues, Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, oil, oil field, oil field hit peak production, oil reserves, Peak oil Szabo is right, oil will sustains us for years to come, almost 20 or even 30. That means I can drive my Hummer around until I well into my 50′s. Those are going to be some very sweet times indeed. I can take my three-armed children down to the beach, its surely going to be a warm day, and play in the acidic ocean. And as I am driving home in my wonderfully large SUV, we can enjoy the beautiful sunset because of increased particulates in the air. What a glorious time! . . . → Read More: There Is Plenty Oil!
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