Less biologically dynamic ocean margins during the Ice Ages
The marginal ocean supports half of the ocean productivity in the present day, partly driven by the efficient nutrient cycling in the...
Coral record of anthropogenic N perturbation in the remote open ocean
Marine phytoplankton, like all organisms, require nitrogen to live and grow. Although the majority of the air we breathe is N2, the...
With climate change, fertilizing oceans could be a zero-sum game
Scientists plumbing the depths of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean have found ancient sediments suggesting that one proposed way to...
Dust in the wind drove iron fertilization during ice age
Plankton remove the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere during growth and transfer it to the deep ocean when their...