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Increasing Ocean Acidity Harming More Than Just Corals
2013-12-25 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: The chemistry of the oceans is changing. And it isn't just the corals and the baby oysters that are unhappy. It makes juvenile rockfish really anxious, and it upsets the digestion of sea urchins. The pH (a measure of acidity -- the lower the pH, the more acid the water) of the planet's oceans is dropping rapidly, largely because the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are increasing. Since carbon dioxide dissolves in water to form carbonic acid, the seas are responding to global change. The...
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