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IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Sandra Upson	Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water.
Popular Mechanics November 3, 2008 Andrew Moseman	How Geoengineering Works: 5 Big Plans to Stop Global Warming Some scientists believe that now is the time to research such proposals so that in 10 or 20 years, should governments fail to act, scientists have them at the ready.
Wired November 2000 Charles Graeber	Dumping Iron Ecohacker Michael Markels claims he has a megafix for global warming: Supercharge the growth of ocean plankton with vitamin Fe and let a zillion CO2 scrubbers bloom...
Popular Mechanics June 2007 Emily Masamitsu	4 Geoengineering Attack Plans to Fight Climate Change As the war on global warming heats up, some scientists argue that meddling with the environment might be the only way to save it.
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Geotimes December 2004 Sara Pratt	Acidic Waters Threaten Sea Life High acidity in the world's oceans may be threatening coral populations, such as those in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Geotimes July 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Ancient Ocean Burps A sediment core extracted from the ocean floor off the coast of Baja, Calif., indicates two "burps" of carbon dioxide were once released from a deep, stagnant part of the ocean.
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Katie Lian Hui Lim	Switching desalination plants from carbon dioxide source to sink A new process has been proposed to decompose waste desalination brine using solar energy that could allow desalination plants to act as a sink rather than a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and help to neutralize ocean acidity.
Popular Mechanics July 2008 Jon Luoma	Greenhouse Graveyard: New Progress for Big Global Warming Fix Scientists admit it will be tough to capture a key greenhouse gas and bury carbon dioxide in the ground, in rock or underwater. What's even tougher for carbon sequestration: figuring out where to store it.
Chemistry World August 7, 2006 Ned Stafford	Sea Sediment Storage Proposed for Carbon Dioxide It may be possible to fight global warming by burying carbon dioxide in reservoirs hundreds of meters below the ocean floor.
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 David Mattison	Information on the Seven Seas: International Ocean Science Web Resources (Part 2) A look at three areas of international cooperation in ocean science research: the physical and chemical ocean, meteorology, and marine life.
Smithsonian February 2004 Deborah Franklin	Gas Guzzlers New research shows how microscopic diatoms remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and may help keep the planet from overheating
Geotimes September 2004 Jay Chapman	Hurricanes' Green Thumb As coastal residents are geared up for this year's peak Atlantic hurricane season -- mid-August through October -- scientists are looking at past hurricanes to better understand what happens to the oceans in the wake of these whirlwind events.
Geotimes February 2007 Nicole Branan	Shifting Winds Shift Warming Trends? New model simulations indicate that a poleward shift in the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds could cause the Southern Ocean's carbon dioxide and heat uptake to increase by up to 20%.
IEEE Spectrum August 2010 Paul McFedries	Technically Speaking: Hacking the Planet There's plenty of controversy swirling around the idea of climate intervention -- and no shortage of new words
Popular Mechanics March 28, 2008 Joanna Borns	Spongelike Air-Capture Gadget Scrubs Away Carbon Emissions Researchers have invented a phone-booth-size device that can take back the carbon dioxide emissions that have already reached the atmosphere.
Chemistry World November 7, 2008 Matt Wilkinson	Rocks to soak up carbon dioxide Oman's peridotite alone could lock away over a billion tons of CO 2 a year - a significant slice of the 30 billion tons of CO 2 emitted annually worldwide by human activity.
Chemistry World September 27, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Scientists Uncover How Last Ice Age Ended Scientists have shown that the end of the last age 19,000 years ago began in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere before sweeping into the tropics.
Geotimes July 2004 Naomi Lubick	Ocean Management 101 In a recent report, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy calls for a uniform national policy on ocean research -- including management of coastal areas such as the West Coast.
Chemistry World October 7, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Ocean acidification threat to UK coral reefs The latest studies on ocean acidification indicate that it's not just tropical corals that are under threat from ocean acidification, but cold water corals too.
Chemistry World March 2006 Katie Gibb	Extreme Analysis High pressures, cold temperatures and inaccessible samples all make analytical work challenging for chemists. Science still has a lot to gain from studying and working in extreme environments.
Chemistry World August 25, 2013 Daniel Johnson	Unconsidered chemistry could amplify global warming A link between the world's oceans' pH and climate change that has, until now, passed unnoticed could dramatically speed up global warming by lowering production of a smelly molecule, dimethyl sulfide, important for cloud formation.
Geotimes May 2004 Sara Pratt	Ocean Anoxia Researchers are using microfossils to date ocean anoxic events, or severe oxygen depletion in the ocean, back to 132 million years ago. The findings will open up several new avenues of inquiry including the impact of the global carbon cycle perturbation on the biosphere as a whole.
Outside July 2007 Amanda Griscom Little	Brain Storm It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, but as the mercury rises, a crop of weather-changing scientists want to try.
Popular Mechanics November 17, 2008 Jon Luoma	Scientists Recommend Permanent Method For Carbon Sequestration: Turn CO2 into Rock A breaking study indicates that 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year could be locked up in rock formations that cover half of Oman and the same principle could be transferred to rock formations in shallow seas.
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher	Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Wallace Broecker: Changes in the Atmosphere An interview with an expert on issues of climate change about his experiences advising politicians about the consequences of climate change and his hopes for new technologies of carbon sequestration.
Chemistry World February 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Calls for UK Investment in Carbon Capture The UK government must invest immediately in carbon capture and storage technologies to meet carbon emissions targets, a parliamentary committee has urged.
Chemistry World October 2007 Stuart Haszeldine	How to Bury the Problem Carbon capture and storage could allow us to burn fossil fuels without climate consequences - but only with more investment in R&D.
Chemistry World February 27, 2013 Anthony King	PharmaSea to scour ocean depths for new drugs A new project will soon see scientists trawling the ocean bottoms for new bioactive compounds. Scientists on the PharmaSea mission will haul samples of mud and sediment from the deep sea, isolating marine organisms in the hunt for novel drug candidates.
BusinessWeek November 27, 2006 Adam Aston	Wild Fixes For A Warming Planet Scientists are envisioning giant but risky engineering projects to undo climate change.
Chemistry World May 28, 2013	Extreme extraction Imagine how extreme it would be to mine at the bottom of the ocean or on asteroids in the depths of space. That is exactly what a few pioneering companies are planning to do.
Geotimes December 2004 Jay Chapman	Carbon Dioxide Alchemy Some scientists are experimenting with a new form of alchemy, not looking to create a substance, but rather remove one: carbon dioxide. If their process works, it could reduce the effects of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
Scientific American December 2008 Barbara Juncosa	Stations in the Seas: Permanent Underwater Observatories Scientists envisage unmanned labs on the floor of the ocean to conduct experiments and monitor climate change
Geotimes February 2004	Call for ocean policy overhaul America needs a new ocean policy. That's the message coming out of several sessions at last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences which focused on the health of America's oceans.
Chemistry World September 2, 2011 Tegan Thomas	Offsetting the Cost of a Green Solvent Scientists have conducted a study to show how waste carbon dioxide can become an exploitable resource.
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