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Category: Ocean Fertilization

Ocean fertilization refers to dumping iron (as powdered iron sulphate) or other nutrients (e.g. urea) into the ocean in areas with low biological productivity in order to stimulate phytoplankton growth. In theory, the resulting phytoplankton draw down atmospheric CO2 and then die, falling to the ocean bed and sequestering carbon.

Jun 8 2020

Geoengineering Threatens Oceans

Oct 24 2019

Artificial Upwelling: current efforts and anticipated impacts of intermingling the ocean

Aug 21 2019

Rotterdam’s Carbon Capture, India’s Cloud Seeding and other updates: August 2019

Jun 19 2019

Ice on Fire makes dangerous concessions to techno-fix fantasies

May 15 2019

Geoengineering Developments: Carbon Capture, Venture Capital and Would-be Megaprojects

Sep 13 2018

Marine Geoengineering: a technofix for the climate? (video)

Jul 12 2018

Pirates of the Pacific

Jun 8 2018

Artificial Upwelling (technology factsheet)

May 30 2018

Ocean Fertilization (technology factsheet)

Dec 6 2017

The Big Bad Fix

May 10 2017

Climate Change, Smoke and Mirrors

Dec 14 2016

UN to extend freeze on climate change geoengineering

Nov 23 2016

Climate Change Policy and The Super-Hero Syndrome

Jan 29 2016

Seeds of doubt over iron boost for algae

Jun 5 2015

Recklessly playing God with the planet

Feb 17 2015

Geoengineering is no place for corporate profit making

Jun 20 2013

Another study reveals dangers of geoengineering through ‘iron fertilisation’

May 27 2013

Don’t Dump Iron — Dump Rogue Climate Schemes

Mar 28 2013

B.C. village’s ocean fertilization experiment probed

Oct 26 2012

Greatest risk of ocean experiment is that it will spawn more

Oct 25 2012

Iron Ocean Dump Greatest Risk Is Haida Salmon Boom: Critic

Oct 19 2012

A Brief Primer on Ocean Fertilization in the CBD and the London Convention and Protocol

Oct 17 2012

Haida company facing controversy over Pacific Ocean iron dust dump says it’s “creating life”

Oct 17 2012

Canadian government ‘knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific’

Oct 16 2012

100 tonnes of iron sulphate dumped off Canada’s Pacific coast

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