Archive for July, 2014

Ocean fertilization: still not recommended

Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

The idea of fertilizing the ocean with iron to capture carbon is one of the more colorful ideas to arise directly from a basic understanding of biogeochemistry. Ocean phytoplankton are iron-limited and alleviating that iron limitation makes them grow enough to cause some of the fixed carbon to get locked ...

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