Sydney Morning Herald: SYDNEY researchers are pushing ahead with controversial plans to fertilise the ocean off Australia’s coast and use plankton to slow climate change. The director of the University of Sydney’s Ocean Technology Group, Professor Ian Jones, said sprinkling nitrate fertiliser across an area of ocean just 40 kilometres by 40 kilometres would stimulate the growth of carbon-absorbing plankton on a scale big enough to meet the Federal Government’s total greenhouse gas reduction target for …