Iron fertilization debate spreads to people with coin

I don’t know if you’re sick of the subject by now, but iron fertilization of the oceans is back in the news – this time on CNNmoney.com. This is a good sign, if only because it signals that people with money are beginning to hear that we need to put some major resources into reducing [...]

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Five steps to salvation

Detect. Transmit. Analyze. Notify. Avoid.
Sounds like a pretty straightforward way to keep ships from plowing into whales. It’s just in the knick of time then, as collisions are an all-too-frequent occurrence along the busy Atlantic seaboard.
The Boston Globe has the story of the new system, just installed in Massachusetts Bay. Here’s the project website itself, [...]

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