Courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration A new study finds ocean acidification is already dissolving the shells and damaging the sensory organs of young Dungeness crab off the West ...

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Over the last century, the rapid increase of carbon dioxide concentrations in our atmosphere thanks to the combustion of fossil fuels has led to an observed increase in acidity and surface temperature ...

Severe oxygen drops in the water can leave trails of fish kills in their wakes, but scientists thought adult fish would be more resilient to the second major threat in coastal waters: acidification. A ...

A convergence of accelerating greenhouse gas emissions and rising odds of an El Niño event threatens to push Earth past ...

Zooplankton migration against vertical currents can enrich zooplankton near reefs 33. Although the horizontal tows were not conducted directly over the bubble streams, gas bubbles at the seep sites ...

The acidification of the Earth's oceans is expected to triple by 2100, and could lead to major impacts on biodiversity across U.S. coastlines. With climbing atmospheric CO2, huge amounts of this gas ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Ocean acidification is the chemical process that is set into ...

An international research team develops a rubric for governments and policymaking bodies to evaluate preparedness for ocean acidification. In a paper published today in the journal Environmental ...

Ocean acidification (OA) is spreading rapidly in the western Arctic Ocean in both area and depth, according to new interdisciplinary research reported in Nature Climate Change by a team of ...