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40 Years Scratching Reveals Ocean Acidification Data
2014-11-18 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As carbon dioxide levels increase due largely to human emissions, the world's oceans are becoming highly corrosive to a number of organisms that call it home. But the rate of acidification and related changes are anything but uniform. That's why a new study aims to set a baseline for nearly every patch of saltwater from sea to acidifying sea so that future acidification and its impacts can be better monitored. Taro Takahashi, a geochemist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who authored the new...
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New Global Maps Detail Seasonal and Geographic Trends in Ocean Acidification
2014-11-13 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A team of scientists has published the most comprehensive analysis yet of how acidity levels vary across the worlds oceans. Drawing on four decades of measurements, researchers from Columbia University and the University of Colorado mapped changes in ocean acidity by season and location, as well as how acidity levels affect the stability of shell-building minerals. The maps reveal that the northern Indian Ocean is at least 10 percent more acidic than the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, possibly due...
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Can ocean acidification have a positive effect on corals?
2014-11-09 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: A majority of recent reports highlights the negative effects of warmer water temperatures on corals. Because of increasing numbers of bleaching events, where corals become white resulting from a loss of their symbiotic algae, corals become stressed and can starve to death if the condition is prolonged. However, researchers from Northeastern University's Marine Science Center and the University of Chapel Hill have found some slightly positive effects that moderate ocean acidification and warming...
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Project censored: Acidification tops list of important stories ignored by media
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reporter: Our oceans are acidifying--even if the nightly news hasnt told you yet. As humanity continues to fill the atmosphere with harmful gases, the planet is becoming less hospitable to life as we know it. The vast oceans absorb much of the carbon dioxide we have produced, from the industrial revolution through the rise of global capitalism. Earths self-sacrifice spared the atmosphere nearly 25 percent of humanitys CO2 emissions, slowing the onslaught of many severe weather consequences. Although...
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Ocean Acidification from Climate Change Could Cost $1 Trillion
2014-10-09 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The United Nations Environment Programme and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) released a report this week at a conference in Korea, compiling studies on the impact of increased ocean acidification, caused by absorbing carbon dioxide, on the marine and coastal ecosystems. The report updated a 2009 report, since the amount of research into ocean acidification has grown, along with concerns about the effect it is having on marine organisms and the economies dependent on them. "The oceans...
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