Science news articles about 'iron fertilization'

... , a marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), found that natural iron fertilization enhanced the export of carbon to the deep ocean. The research was published January 29, ...

Oceanographers have analyzed data from an iron-fertilization experiment in the Southern Ocean. Unfortunately most of the carbon from lush plankton blooms, both artificially fertilized and natural, ...

A possible solution to global warming has been dealt a blow. Fertilizing plankton by the artificial addition of iron has long been proposed as a potential way to geoengineer the removal of carbon ...

... iron from regular sources. "This is one potential mechanism of creating essentially a natural iron fertilization mechanism that's completely unknown," Edwards said. "A major question involves the ...

... Carbon Explorers were originally intended to monitor the iron-fertilization experiment for 60 days, but they continued ... third, even if true, would imply that iron-stimulated blooms still lead to reduced ...

... nitrogen fixation is a predominant process," Capone said. But Capone also noted the risks of iron fertilization, including increased production of other greenhouse gases and unpredictable effects on ...

... large-scale interactions is critical to understanding climate change." Some scientists have looked at iron fertilization as a way to trigger biological growth in nutrient-poor areas of the ocean, ...

... dead zones in the oceans. In addition, he says, the maximum possible rate of ocean iron fertilization could only offset a small fraction of the current rate of carbon burning by humans. Ocean ...