Tucker Campbell inspires kids at the Greensboro Science Center with hands-on science lessons focused on conservation.

Factors ranging from rainfall to nutrient runoff to changing mining and agricultural practices drove decades-long pH trends ...

Shells aren't just pretty. They have played a role in human history. Award-winning author Cynthia Barnett is coming to the ...

Bruce Benton presented the following update during the Earth Day events on two major grants that are dramatically ...

Explore how rising global temperatures and human activity are affecting migratory birds' journeys, breeding, and survival, ...

Ocean acidification is sinking into marine regions ... and sea butterflies are at particular risk because they build their shells out of calcium, which dissolves if the water gets too acidic.

Ocean acidification is driven by the same cause ... spells trouble for marine life that relies on calcium carbonate for shell formation. The current safe operating limit is set at 2.75 aragonite ...

But mussels are threatened by the warming waters and ocean acidification arriving with ... though not yet Massachusetts, have shells speckled with tiny holes — far more than the mussels of ...

“Ocean acidification is gradually shifting the ... alarming signs of worsening ecological effects. When they examine shells collected off the coast, they’ve been finding that some are thinner ...

Other sea creatures are being impacted by the acidification of the ocean waters because of acid eroding their shells or exoskeletons. "Carbonate is crucial to a great diversity of organisms—such ...

As oceans turn more acidic, it becomes more difficult for marine organisms, such as coral and some plankton, to form their protective shells ... the Pacific Islands Ocean Acidification Centre ...

Right now, these shell-building blocks are cheap to acquire - as their levels in sea water are high (known as saturated levels). But ocean acidification is changing this. Shelled marine organisms are ...