“Ocean acidification and marine climate change are major threats for Aotearoa’s marine ecosystems. Ocean acidification makes it difficult for marine organisms with calcium carbonate shells and ...

Ocean acidification phytoplankton research published in Nature Geoscience shows that rising CO2 forces marine phytoplankton to shed phosphorus from their cell membranes in a process that 1,000 ...

Stressful childhoods can affect an individual’s adult years and influence future generations. Scientists at the University of California, Davis, found a similar pattern holds true for red abalone ...

An unhealthy sea butterfly, or pteropod, showing effects of ocean acidification including ragged, dissolving shell ridges on upper surface, a cloudy shell in lower right quadrant, and severe abrasions ...

Our oceans are becoming more acidic, which could have major consequences for marine life. Of particular concern is what this ...

A pair of environmental physicists at the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, has built a 3D model of the world's oceans and their currents to learn more about the depths ...

By María Paula Rubiano A. Between 2014 and 2015, a marine heatwave known as “The Blob” warmed an area of the Pacific Ocean larger than the United States and Mexico combined. The massive event fueled ...

Suggested Citation: "2 Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Chemistry of Seawater." National Research Council. 2010. Ocean Acidification: A National Strategy to Meet the Challenges of a Changing ...

NOAA Fisheries continues to foster collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Postdoctoral researcher Sam Gurr recently went on an international exchange to advance research on the effects of ...

The world's oceans are in trouble. Every day, 22 million tons of carbon dioxide from factories, cars, power plants and other human sources are absorbed by the world's oceans. The result? A frightening ...

You’re the product of stability on a planetary scale. Around 12,000 years ago, Earth warmed from an ice age into the relatively consistent climate that allowed humans to adopt agriculture, literally ...

The oceans have absorbed a significant portion of all anthropogenic (CO 2) emissions (approximately a third of the CO 2 emitted from fossil fuel emissions, cement production and deforestation; Sabine ...