Ocean acidification will make it hard for mussels to hang on experiments suggest The strong, stretchy threads that mussels use to stay put won't work as well in warmer, more acidic waters ...

“Mussels are the new oysters,” Carrington said. But there’s a twist: mussels confirm that ocean acidification’s impact extends in mollusks beyond an inability to form a shell.

Mussels (Mytilus trossulus) attach to substratum with byssal threads. Photo: Emily Carrington, University of Washington. Ocean acidification-- which occurs when the ocean absorbs more carbon ...

Warming ocean water and increased ocean acidification have had an impact on the shells of California mussels that make their home along the Pacific coast from Mexico to Alaska. Elizabeth Bullard ...

The Gulf of Maine—home to commercial fisheries for oysters, clams and mussels—has unexpectedly avoided an increase in ...

Ocean acidification due to excessive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is threatening to produce large-scale changes to the marine ecosystem affecting all levels of the food chain, a ...

'Ocean acidification is a crisis we cannot see,' said Professor Helen Findlay, the lead author of the study. 'But its fingerprints are all over our coastlines, hatcheries and ecosystems.

A Dalhousie student is bringing understanding to the troubling problem of ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. As an undergraduate, Kim Davies worked with Verena ...

Another is ocean acidification, also caused by burning fossil fuels. In 2023, researchers determined that six of these boundaries had already been crossed. The new research adds a worrying seventh.

Ocean acidification is affecting the shells and sensory organs of young Dungeness crabs in West Coast waters, posing a threat to B.C.’s second most valuable seafood export. A study published in ...

Right now, the pH of open waters near Hawaii commonly hovers around 8, and ocean acidification models forecast a pH drop of 0.2 or more over the next 100 years, said Carrington. But in coastal waters, ...