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Seagrass Could Mitigate Ocean Acidification Effects of Climate Change

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:40:24 +0000

Seagrass meadows can play with a limited, localized function in relieving sea acidification in aquatic ecosystems. This information is based on new work directed by Carnegie’s David Koweek and Ken Caldeira. Carbon dioxide can be absorbed into the sea where chemical reactions together with the seawater create carbonic acid, which can be corrosive to marine […]

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Water Testing Device Cheaply Monitors Ocean Acidification

Annika Tostengard — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 17:02:08 +0000

Researchers at Montana company Sunburst Sensors have won $1.5 million for a device that can cheaply and accurately test the acid levels in ocean water. Concerns about ocean acidification have come to the forefront of the climate change discussion in recent years, but there is still not an easy way to monitor just how acidic ocean water […]

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Study Shows ‘Unprecedented’ Ocean Acidification

Danny Harper — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 08:23:40 +0000

When it comes to climate change, the invisible elephant in the room is ocean acidification. Climate scientists have long considered it a legitimate concern, but only recently has it been found that the rate increase and ecological influence of acidification has exceeded our previous estimates. 500 of the worlds leading experts came together in 2012 […]

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Scientists Find High Rate of Ocean Acidification Threatens Marine Ecosystems

Mila Luleva — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:25:19 +0000

Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany established that the rate of ocean acidification due to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere presents a serious thread to aquatic ecosystems. The speed of change in oceans acidity was found to be nearly ten times greater than ever before. When the oceans absorb CO2 from […]

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New Technique Captures Atmospheric Carbon And Prevents Ocean Acidification

Mila Luleva — Tue, 28 May 2013 14:25:06 +0000

Researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed a new technique that allows removal and storage of atmospheric carbon. Moreover, it can be used as a mean to mitigate ocean acidification, through generating of carbon-negative hydrogen and producing alkalinity. The findings of the laboratory based study are published in this week’s issue of the Proceedings […]

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Ocean Acidification Threatening Vulnerable Shell Animals

Mila Luleva — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:37:31 +0000

Manmade Ocean Acidification is now real. The first ever real evidence is that the shells of sea snails are dissolving. This was observed by a team of scientists, led by Geraint Tarling, from the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK. They captured free-swimming snails called pteropods, from the Southern Ocean in early 2008. After studying […]

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Alarming Rates of Ocean Acidification Detected by UK Scientists

Mila Luleva — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:59:47 +0000

In March, 2012, one of the world’s leading journals “Science” published a paper on geological record of ocean acidification by Dr. Daniela Schmidt, a geologist from University of Bristol, and her team. This week, at a conference held in Monterey, California, on “The Ocean in a High-CO2 World”, Dr. Schmidt put emphasis on the fact that […]

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