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Study finds native Olympia oysters more resilient to ocean acidification
2016-06-12 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Unlike the commercially raised Pacific oysters, Olympia oysters don't begin making their shells until 2-3 days after fertilization and make them far more slowly, which helps protect them from corrosive water during this critical development phase, said Oregon State University's George Waldbusser, principal investigator on the project. Pacific oysters, on the other hand, only have a six-hour window to develop their calcium carbonate shell, and when exposed to acidified water, their energy stores...
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Few Britons have ever heard of ocean acidification
2016-05-27 08:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If youve heard of ocean acidification, youre in the minority. If you know that ocean acidification is caused by carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels and cutting down rainforests, youre practically a scholar. A new poll published in Nature Climate Change finds that around 80% of the British public has never heard of ocean acidification. It is sobering to think that few people are aware of this process given its widespread risks for the natural environment, and the potential knock-on effects...
Can corals keep up with ocean acidification?
2016-04-07 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE:Â New sensor by a team led by University of Delaware researchers Wei-Jun Cai and Mark Warner (above) enables first carbonate ion concentration measurements inside coral. …
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Ocean acidification already taking toll on coral reef growth
2016-02-26 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Comment: Of particular concern are losses of older corals, which release more eggs and sperm during reproduction than young ones, and bleaching in nurseries of corals established to replace those that die off. The findings were published in the science journal Nature. Can we administer a similar procedure to save the reefs globally? Qld Senator Larissa Waters is the Australian Greens Deputy Leader and climate change spokesperson. But even if the experiments underlying the study did exactly that,...
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Ocean acidification makes coralline algae less robust
2016-02-08 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Ocean acidification (the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere), is affecting the formation of the skeleton of coralline algae which play an important part in marine biodiversity, new research from the University of Bristol, UK has found. Coralline red algae form maerl beds which provide important habitat in shallow waters, including the UK coastal shelf. Maerl hosts a high diversity of organisms by provid…
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