<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica, Arial'; font-size: 15px; "><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.5em; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); "><a href="http://amsciadmin.eresources.com/track/trackurl.aspx?q=SynP9lejxPWeMYgWYOLBpFzRoJcqM8xxG7cvsQuxK1FwPUSi3v0EmmirDW4oKeMgo9QkQQ/DUKtgMRFJPNQNp+vWhaQFmesK" style="font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; ">Handle With Care</a></h3><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; ">from the <em>New York Times</em> (Registration Required)</div><div style="font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; ">Last year, a private company proposed "fertilizing" parts of the ocean with iron, in hopes of encouraging carbon-absorbing blooms of plankton. 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