As warmer waters and ocean acidification reduce coral formation, the seas will take up more carbon dioxide – an effect that ...

This is what “ocean acidification” is all about ... The new acid in the water makes this process more difficult. So the animal has to use up more energy building and repairing its shell ...

Oceans absorb about 30 per cent of carbon dioxide (CO2) we produce, reducing the pH of seawater. This process is known as ocean acidification. With atmospheric CO2 levels 50 per cent above ...

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

The process has an overall buffering effect that preserves ... the more resistant the ocean becomes to change in pH and ocean acidification. This reaction is important in terms of how the ocean ...

But how can people understand such an abstract concept for a complex process in an unfamiliar habitat? The researchers' answer is "ocean acidification stripes" – a web- based graphic tool that ...

Ocean acidification has been found to weaken and ... "This is also a natural process, but because the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing, so too is the amount of carbonic ...

“Even if we were able to stop CO2 emissions immediately, we would still – for a couple of hundred of years or so – see a process of ocean acidification in the interior,” says Mülle ...

In this new effort, the researchers wondered about the acidification process in the Arctic Ocean—its cold temperature suggests things would be different than in the tropics or even in the mid-ocean.

But with coastal upwelling, a process that can bring acidic deep-ocean water to the surface, some coastal environments already see this level of acidification occasionally. And even if future ...

Like other climate change impacts, ocean acidification doesn’t occur uniformly ... releasing organic compounds and CO2 in the process. “I think it’s important that people know about this ...