New Scientist: WHALE what's going on here then? Climate change's dramatic effects on the Southern Ocean just got easier to track, thanks to a comprehensive biodiversity map of the region. Some estimates suggest that the Southern Ocean is home to half of all the human-linked carbon dioxide that the world's oceans absorb, and the consequent drop in ocean-water pH there has already begun to dissolve animal shells in the region. The new Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean will make it easier to monitor problems...