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Using the ocean as a carbon sink may be our best hope against climate change
I was a graduate student on the last US-funded ocean iron fertilization project in 2002, and I have spent the past 20 years studying the response of ocean algae to iron in seawater. At the start of my career, carbon dioxide removal was largely on the …