Evaluating climate change impacts, for example, temperature anomaly and hyposalinity, on coral reproduction across a diversity of systems, including high-latitude marginal environments, is important.

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 ...

Ocean acidification, driven by the uptake of anthropogenic CO₂ by seawater, is lowering ocean pH and altering carbonate chemistry with profound consequences for the reproductive cycle of marine ...

The ocean has absorbed a significant portion carbon dioxide emissions from human activities, decreasing the pH of the water and leading to a suite of chemical changes collectively known as ocean ...

Across the globe, oceans are acidifying as they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, threatening coral reefs and many other marine organisms. A new study, led by oceanographers at the University ...

Marine heat waves and extreme ocean acidification events are each damaging on their own. But when both stressors hit simultaneously, their individual effects can be exacerbated. That threat may be ...

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 ...

A warming climate and ocean acidification will likely impact growth for a local abalone species, according to a study published in Scientific Reports in May. Pinto abalone, a marine snail roughly the ...

Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean acidification reduces primary production, the process of photosynthesis in ...

How will the climate crisis affect one of the ocean’s fiercest predators? New research published Wednesday has examined what might happen to sharks’ highly specialized, flesh-cutting teeth. As carbon ...

The IAEA Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC) held a basic training course on ocean acidification in March 2026 in Kingston, Jamaica. The course brought together 11 ...