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Mussels off the menu within 85 years due to climate change
2016-07-06 07:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Moules-frites and moules mariniere will be largely consigned to the pages of culinary history by the end of the century, scientists have predicted. The increasing acidity of the oceans due to climate change means that farming or fishing for mussels will be commercially unviable by 2100. Researchers at Washington University in Seattle have established that a mussel's ability to grip to a rock or rope is dependent on the acidity of the surrounding sea. The molluscs have to cling in place for...
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