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Scientists Focus on Polar Waters As Threat of Acidification Grows
2014-03-31 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A few weeks from now, in the waters off the Tasmanian coast, marine ecologist Jonny Stark of the Australian Antarctic Division and a team of biologists and technicians will piece together an underwater laboratory. Once they get the technology hooked up and running, they will promptly disassemble the hoses, instruments, pumps, and plastic panels and crate it all up. This is merely a dress rehearsal, and in much kinder conditions than those anticipated for the performance later this year in Antarctica....
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Sea Change: Acidification fight faces political hurdles
2014-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: When U.S. Rep. Brian Baird tried a few years ago to get his colleagues to put more money toward ocean-acidification research, few even understood the issue. One congressman, Baird said, confused souring seas with acid rain, and asked, "Didn`t we deal with that 20 years ago?" The corrosion of the oceans by carbon-dioxide emissions has barely made a ripple among Washington, D.C.`s power brokers. Little money gets earmarked for research. Ocean change has inspired few stabs at curbing CO2. In...
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Ocean Acidification Driven Local Factors As Well, Study Finds
2014-01-03 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The discovery of dramatic yet natural short-term increases in a North Carolina estuary's acidity is bad news for the fragile ecosystem and others like it, all of which are already facing long-term ocean acidification due to climate change. Writing in the journal PLOS One, researchers from Duke University explain how, by measuring the acidity of a North Carolina inlet every week for a year, they were able to identify a range of natural factors contributing to temporary spikes in acidity. These...
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Ocean acidification: A climate change issue
2013-12-21 18:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
VOXXI: The vast expanse of icy white stretches over the horizon as Brad Seibel and his National Science Foundation team of scientists step out of their shelters to begin the new day. Seibel is a professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Rhode Island. He is also a comparative animal physiologist and specializes in the physiology of marine animals in extreme environments. The four-person team has traveled to Antarctica to study the trade-off between aerobic capacity and locomotory activity...
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Nervous Nemo: Ocean acidification could make fish anxious
2013-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Ocean acidification, which is caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere being absorbed into the sea, has made many worry because of the problems it will likely create, such as a decline in shellfish and coral reefs. But humans may not be alone in their anxiety: Ocean acidification threatens to make fish more anxious as well (and not because they are reading about ocean acidification on LiveScience.com. At least so far as we know.) A new study found that after being placed for...
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