A research team from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) has published a study in Communications Biology showing how ...

The ocean's shell-building animals are most vulnerable to the effects of ocean acidification. 3 Many ocean creatures, like snails, clams, oysters, and other mollusks, are equipped to pull ...

Ocean acidification takes place when excess CO 2 from the atmosphere dissolves in the ocean and combines with seawater to form carbonic acid. Carbonic acid breaks up into hydrogen ions and bicarbonate ...

They find that the current rate of ocean acidification puts us on a track that, if continued, would likely be unprecedented in last 300 million years.

“Ocean acidification is everywhere, but this paper basically shows that, depending on the location, it can manifest very differently,” said Cai. Sampling the same latitudinal locations on the east and ...

Impact of ocean acidification on the structure of future phytoplankton communities. Nature Climate Change, 2015; DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2722 ...

Citations T.D. Clark et al. Ocean acidification does not impair the behaviour of coral reef fishes. Nature. Published online January 8, 2020. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019 ...

Ocean acidification impacts on coastal ecosystem services due to habitat degradation. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2019; ETLS20180117 DOI: 10.1042/ETLS20180117 ...

Ocean acidification makes some fish brains less receptive to a neurotransmitter controlling impulsive behavior. (In one study, larvae raised in acidified waters swam toward the smell of predators.) ...

“Ocean acidification is proceeding at a rate 10 times faster today than any time in the last 55 million years,” said Lovenduski. Within decades, scientists are expecting parts of the ocean to become ...

Ocean acidification triggered by massive volcanic eruptions helped cause the worst mass extinction in the history of life on Earth, according to a new study. The findings, published in the journal ...