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HONOLULU (KHON2) — A new University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa study showed there will be unseen levels of ocean acidification ...
A new University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa study showed there will be unseen levels of ocean acidification around the Hawaiian Islands.
The deep oceans have crossed a crucial boundary that threatens their ability to provide the surface with food and oxygen, a new study finds. Nearly two-thirds of the ocean below 200 meters, or 656 … ...
SEATTLE - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it will consider ways the states can address rising acidity in oceans, which poses a serious threat to shellfish and other ...
(via SciShow) Are you old enough for your childhood to be filled with the threat of acid rain? Are you now thinking "Wait, why haven't I heard about the threat of acid rain in forever?". Well it's ...
Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, discusses the potential return of acid rain in the United States due to recent rollbacks on pollution protections. Acid rain, once nearly ...
Acid rain describes any form of precipitation—from snow, fog, hail, or rain—that contains high levels of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). While volcanoes can spew these chemicals into ...
Acid rain can have devastating effects on the environment and infrastructure.
As pollution and sulfuric acid choked North American skies in the 1970s and 80s, a bipartisan, transnational agreement spearheaded by the Environmental Protection Agency combatted acid rain, which ...
Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth's habitability, based in part on ocean acidity.
A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million years.