Seeding the oceans with iron-rich dust to promote blooms of CO2-eating plankton has great potential environmental benefits, but the I-dare-you-to-stop-us stance of Planktos Inc., which plans to ...

The scientific advisory group for the parties of the London Convention, the main treaty governing ocean dumping, has for the first time questioned the use of 'iron fertilization' in combating climate ...

AN AUDACIOUS plan to combat food shortages during the Second World War by harvesting plankton from Scotland’s sea lochs has been uncovered in recently discovered documents. Sign up to our Scotsman ...

Wartime Britons may have been forced to eat PLANKTON, secret plans reveal. Proposals to harvest the miniscule creatures – eaten by whales – were drawn up during the Second World War. Confidential ...

Scientists in the US think they may now have the explanation to a conundrum that has puzzled them for a long time − why there are high levels of methylmercury, which can damage the nervous system, in ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Biofuels company Plankton Power has teamed up with the ...

The team behind a new aquaculture venture in Western Australia's Pilbara region is harvesting its first test crop of algae for the natural medicine market. Plankton Farms, on the outskirts of Karratha ...