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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...