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Acidic ocean water is dissolving sea snail shells
2014-05-04 15:37:21| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Times: Increasing acidity of the ocean is dissolving the shells of tiny marine snails called pteropods, according to a new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The pteropod is a free-swimming snail found in oceans around the world that grows to a size of about one-eighth to one-half inch. The evidence of corrosive waters impacting the snails, which provide food for pink salmon, mackerel, and herring, was discovered by a research team at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory...
Acidic ocean eating away at 'sea butterflies' off West Coast
2014-05-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC News: Acidic waters along the West Coast are dissolving the shells of tiny sea snails that are a food source for salmon, herring and other fish, scientists reported Wednesday, and conditions are worse than they expected. Caused by increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the oceans growing acidity threatens not just to the creatures at the bottom of the food chain, but seafood-eating higher life forms such dolphins, whales and humans. Oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and scientists...
Fish Unable to detect Predators in Acidic Environments
2014-04-14 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Fish living on coral reefs where carbon dioxide seeps from the ocean floor were less able than fish from normal coral reefs to detect the scent of predators, according to a new study that seems to confirm laboratory experiments showing the behavior of reef fishes can be seriously affected by increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the ocean. Fish living on coral reefs where carbon dioxide seeps from the ocean floor were less able than fish from normal coral reefs to detect the scent of predators,...
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Pacific turns acidic
2014-03-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BDNews24: The tropical Pacific Ocean is getting acidic at a much faster rate than expected, a new study says. The cause behind this rapid increase was carbon dioxide (CO2), the combination of its natural variability and human-caused emissions in the atmosphere. "We assume that most of the carbon dioxide increase (in the tropical Pacific) is due to anthropogenic CO2," Adrienne Sutton, a research scientist with United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA's Joint Institute for the Study...
Corals thriving despite acidic condition in remote Pacific bay
2014-02-26 00:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Scientists have discovered a small island bay in the Pacific which could serve as a peephole into the future of the ocean. Palau's Rock Island Bay harbors a naturally occurring anomaly its water is acidified as much as scientists expect the entire ocean to be by 2100 as a result of rising carbon dioxide emissions. Surprisingly, though, the bay is home to one of the healthiest coral reefs in the Pacific. Anywhere else in the world, water acidification results in decline and death of the corals....
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