From Nature Adding iron to the ocean is not an effective way to fight climate change, and we don’t need further research to establish that,…
View More Ohh! Ocean Fertilzation Snap!Category: Dumping
Fish Don’t Kill People, Air-To-Air Missiles Do
A commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico last month ensnared a 8ft long missile in his longline. The missile contained a hole leading the…
View More Fish Don’t Kill People, Air-To-Air Missiles DoIron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming
BERLIN (AFP) — Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has “dampened hopes” that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in…
View More Iron Fertilization Will Not Help Global WarmingWarfare Ecology
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…
View More Warfare EcologyDumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our Problems
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…
View More Dumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our ProblemsDolphins on drugs
by Peter Etnoyer What do you think happens to all the caffeine, cumadin, and Xanax people take every morning? They go into wastewater. How about…
View More Dolphins on drugsA Response to Russ of Planktos
Russ comments in our previous post Au contrair. The record shows that Planktos was long advocating and involved in ecorestoration not merely recently. The Way…
View More A Response to Russ of Planktos6:1 or None?
I like Miriam, she is a lady that gets it. Go there now and read her excellent post on the story behind the 6:1 ratio…
View More 6:1 or None?Dumping Pharmaceutical Waste In The Deep Sea
During 1973-78 alone over 400 metric tones of pharmaceutical wastes were dumped into the ocean off Puerto Rico.
View More Dumping Pharmaceutical Waste In The Deep SeaNew Deep-Sea Communities From Whale Poo
A species of holothurian, Pannychia, swarms a whale fecal mound in the abyssal Pacific. When Miriam visited me last week at MBARI, we discussed over…
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