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Worsening ocean acidification threatens humans and marine life, UK scientists warn
2014-10-09 10:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Rising carbon dioxide emissions are altering the pH levels of the ocean, with dramatic consequences for the marine environment and the people who depend on it, a group of British scientists has said. Experts from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have warned, in a new report published by the UNs Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), that the current rate of ocean acidification is a grave threat to both humans and natural ecosystems. Acidification is already underway, scientists found,...
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Ocean Acidification Could Cost World its Coral... and a Trillion Dollars
2014-10-09 00:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Ocean acidification and coral reef damage is likely going to cost the world economy over a trillion dollars by 2100, according to a new report by United Nations (UN) experts. The report was released on Wednesday by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which has been assessing the economic impacts climate change and degrading biodiversity could have on the world. The report, called "An Updated Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity," details how the ocean's...
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Scientists sound alarm over ocean acidification
2014-10-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: OCEAN ACIDIFICATION has risen by a quarter since pre-industrial times as a result of rising carbon emissions, casting a shadow over the seas as a future source of food, scientists warned on Wednesday. In the past two centuries, the sea's acidity level has risen 26 per cent, mirroring the proportion of carbon dioxide it absorbs from the air, they said in a report to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in South Korea. Rising acidity will have damaging consequences for shellfish, corals...
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Ocean acidification to cost global economy $1tr by 2100
2014-10-08 10:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Ocean acidification will cost the world economy over $1tr annually by 2100, according to a UN report released this week. Changing the composition of the world's oceans will undermine a variety of commercial operations, it said. Published by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, the report warns that various services to the economy provided by the ocean's ecosystem will be compromised by increased acidity due to increased carbon production. Ecosystem services break down into...
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Deep Ocean Heat Storage Not Behind Global Warming Pause, Study Finds
2014-10-07 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The deepest reaches of earth's oceans have not warmed significantly over the last decade, according to scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California a finding that undermines a leading theory as to why the pace of global warming has slowed over the last 15 years. Scientists have speculated that the recent slowdown in rising surface air temperatures was a result of the heat accumulating in the deep ocean. But in a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the NASA researchers...
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