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Cautious on Climate: Moss Landing Marine Laboratories Director Kenneth Coale advocates more research on iron seeding as a climate change fix. "We are not masters of nature when it comes to large-scale ecological manipulations," he said in spring 2008.

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Iron seeding may not be a wise antidote to climate change.

Moss Landing Marine Laboratories may have come up with a lifesaver: Two decades ago, then-MLML director John Martin helped hatch the idea of dumping iron in the ocean to promote plankton blooms, which could soak ...

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