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The search for survivors: Which species will outlast the rising acidity of oceans?
2014-08-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Many of the projected effects of climate change on the world's oceans are already visible, such as melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels. But invisible changes may be the most threatening to human food sources, beginning with the tiny species like plankton that inhabit the bottom of the oceans' food chain. As emissions from human activities increase atmospheric carbon dioxide, they, in turn, are modifying the chemical structure of global waters, making them more acidic. Many researchers...
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