Upwelling zones, water coming from the ocean floor to the surface, tends to be more acidic than the water in the mid to top ...
By bnm Gulf bureau Ocean upwelling zones are acidifying at a frightening pace, threatening fisheries that supply 20% of the world's catch and putting millions of livelihoods at risk, Scottish ...
New findings show that some coastal regions will become far more acidic than scientists once thought, with upwelling systems ...
University of Washington oceanographers decoded data from two sets of native coral samples collected more than a century ...
On a remote coral reef near Papua New Guinea, endless streams of bubbles rise from cracks in the seabed into the shallow ...
By the year 2100, rising carbon dioxide levels are expected to alter ocean chemistry so severely that coral reef communities ...
Even sharks’ famous tooth-regrowing ability may not save them from ocean acidification. Researchers found that future acidic waters cause shark teeth to corrode, crack, and weaken, threatening their ...
The world's oceans are in trouble. Every day, 22 million tons of carbon dioxide from factories, cars, power plants and other human sources are absorbed by the world's oceans. The result? A frightening ...
Not-so-fun fact: our oceans hold 150 times more carbon dioxide than the Earth's atmosphere. Adding to that causes ocean acidification, which can disrupt marine food chains and reduce biodiversity.