The ocean plays a vital role in protecting the planet, absorbing about 31% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) released by human activity, storing it in its ...

Scientists know that, as humans keep emitting excess CO2, the oceans are absorbing the gas and becoming more acidic, a process known as ocean acidification. Ocean water temperatures are also rising.

2. It surfaced decades before scientists expected to see it. What is ocean acidification? Put simply, it’s a process that lowers the pH of the oceans, causing them to become more acidic and ...

This ocean acidification process — which has escalated in tandem with atmospheric emissions — has implications for a large number of ocean-dwelling calcifying species that rely on calcium carbonate ...

Ocean acidification combined with warming of the world oceans and loss of oxygen is having a severe impact on key Arctic marine species such as polar cod in the Barents Sea, according to a new ...

Rising carbon dioxide emissions are not only increasing global temperatures, but are also making the oceans more acidic, threatening marine organisms. Here is a videographic explaining ocean ...

“Ocean acidification is happening globally,” said Jim Christian, research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. “It affects all kinds of organisms,” said Christian, who works at the ...

Siberian erosion, river runoff speeds up Arctic Ocean acidification Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News Posted: Monday, April 25, 2016 at 14:57 0 Comments ...

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 ...

B.C.’s ocean acidification and hypoxia action plan, released in 2023, notes that ocean acidification and the related phenomenon of hypoxia (low oxygen zones in the ocean) “poses a significant ...