In the coming days to weeks, Planktos, a small California - based «ecorestoration» company, will use a 115 - foot (35 - meter) research ship to dump a hundred tons of
iron dust into international waters some 200 miles (322 kilometers) west of the Galápagos Islands.
In the summer of 2012, Russ George, formerly of Planktos Corporation, lead the West Coast Haida Nation into a plot to unilaterally dump 100 tons of
iron dust into the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia, Canada.
Regular listeners know this happened in the summer of 2012, as the unstoppable Russ George, formerly of Planktos Corporation, lead the West Coast Haida Nation into a plot to unilaterally dump 100 tons of
iron dust into the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia, Canada.
A few years ago, someone wanted to dump tons of
iron dust into the oceans to promote algae growth.
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It could also dampen existing soils, stopping
iron - rich
dust from blowing off the Sahara and
into the Atlantic Ocean, where it nourishes sea life, the study points out.
Researchers were interested in
dust because when it blows off land and
into the ocean, the
iron in it fertilizes the water like farmers do their fields.
The
iron dust eventually dissolves harmlessly
into the groundwater.
His calculations indicate that
dust from Africa and Asia injects large amounts of
iron into the world's oceans.
But the film takes a nosedive
into overbaked melodramatics when it
dusts off the history books and veers in all directions to tell its crooked tale (blurring fact and fiction) of the
iron - clad will of the strong monarch (voicing that the good fight was for God and country) and how she defeated the Spanish Armada and brought a long and fruitful time of peace and prosperity to her country.
They staggered in a drunken waltz for a few seconds, kicking up swirls of
dust and snapping the dried weeds around them, until the man suddenly collapsed
into his arms and pushed him against a large
iron mooring bollard.
The German artist Bea Schlingelhoff is
dusting the bridge leading
into the replica village with a thin layer of
iron oxide, a pigment commonly found in California mineral deposits.
Minerals in the
dust, like
iron, aluminum, calcium, magnesium and potassium, settles
into the ocean to the benefit of some species and detriment of others.
Seafloor sediments show that during past ice ages, more
iron - rich
dust blew from chilly, barren landmasses
into the oceans, apparently producing more algae in these areas and, presumably, a natural cooling effect.
The water might duck
into the thermocline for a few decades, but it will ultimately resurface and be subject again to photosynthetic plankton and
iron fertilization from falling
dust.
Less
dust from the desert means less
iron into the ocean.
This has resulted in dramatic spread of global grasslands, which trap
dust and limit aeolian transport of
iron into the pelagic ocean.
«
Dust was blown into the ocean, and much of this dust contained iron,» explains Franco Marcantonio, a professor in the geology and geophysics department of the Texas A&M University College of Geoscien
Dust was blown
into the ocean, and much of this
dust contained iron,» explains Franco Marcantonio, a professor in the geology and geophysics department of the Texas A&M University College of Geoscien
dust contained
iron,» explains Franco Marcantonio, a professor in the geology and geophysics department of the Texas A&M University College of Geosciences.
The
iron came in the form of
dust blown
into the ocean during the last glacial period 71,000 to 14,000 years ago.
The research was conducted in the UK; The scientists started by measuring how much air pollution go
into a certain number of houses in Lancaster using
dust monitoring devices and by swiping surfaces and then analyzing what was collected with magnetic remanence, a technique that provides information on concentrations of
iron - bearing particles.