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Climos enlists plankton, venture funds to fight
climate change.


By Martin LaMonica

Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: February 22, 2008, 5:25 AM PST


Climos, a company that plans to grow plankton to capture carbon
from the atmosphere, is in the process of raising an initial round of $4
million in venture funding.

San Francisco-based Climos plans to announce the series A funding
on Monday or Tuesday, CEO and founder Dan Whaley told CNET
News.com on Thursday.

The funding comes only a few weeks after Planktos, another ocean
fertilization venture
, shut down because of a lack of money and what
it called a "highly effective disinformation campaign."

The goal of these ventures is to stimulate the growth of large amounts
of plankton in the sea by "seeding" it with an iron compound.

During plankton "blooms," which happen naturally, the plankton take
the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as they
grow.

After this growth phase, some of the plankton sink several hundred
meters, at which point the carbon is considered sequestered and
taken out of the atmosphere.

Climos intends to make money by selling carbon credits, which
represent reductions in carbon dioxide emissions that are sold on
voluntary and regulated markets.

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Services Are Tapping People Power to Spot Malware.

Companies are turning to the wisdom of crowds to fight increasingly sophisticated phishing, spam, and nefarious sites.


Erik Larkin, PC World
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:30 PM PST

People-driven security, an approach that pools the judgments of individual participants to identify new threats, is gathering momentum, with uses popping up in everything from antimalware and spam blocking to site filtering.

OpenDNS's Domain Tagging, introduced in February, is the latest example of this kind of strength in numbers. The free Web-filtering service allows subscribers to block sites in their choice of categories. But instead of one company deciding whether a site is malicious, pornographic, or otherwise unsavory, anyone who volunteers can help do the filtering.

Illustrating the trend's extent, Google created a page last fall where anyone can submit a site that they believe to be malicious. Once Google verifies a submission, it adds the tainted site to a shared blacklist. Other free and paid services for tracking attacks, identifying malware, and blocking spam are also tapping such people power.

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