News tagged with acidification

Sea cucumbers could be key to preserving coral reefs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tropical sea cucumbers could play a key role in saving coral reefs from the devastating effects of climate change, say scientists at One Tree Island, the University of Sydney's research station ...

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created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Great Barrier Reef hopes on ice in Aussie Outback

The arid plains fringing Australia's desert centre are more suited to camels than blooms of coral but here, hundreds of miles from the coast, a piece of the Great Barrier Reef has been put on ice.

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created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Broadcast study of ocean acidification to date helps scientists evaluate effects on marine life

Might a penguin's next meal be affected by the exhaust from your tailpipe? The answer may be yes, when you add your exhaust fumes to the total amount of carbon dioxide lofted into the atmosphere by humans ...

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created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Unprecedented, man-made trends in ocean's acidity

Recent carbon dioxide emissions have pushed the level of seawater acidity far above the range of the natural variability that existed for thousands of years, affecting the calcification rates of shell-forming ...

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created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Trouble in paradise: Ocean acidification this way comes

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.---Shakespeare, Macbeth

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created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Comprehensive study makes key findings of ocean pH variations

A group of 19 scientists from five research organizations have conducted the broadest field study of ocean acidification to date using sensors developed at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

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created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Ocean acidification may directly harm fish: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossil fuel combustion, and with it the release of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2), is still growing globally. Beyond climate change, this is also causing the world’s “other ...

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created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Submarine springs offer preview of ocean acidification effects on coral reefs

Observations at submarine springs found along the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula are giving scientists a preview of the possible fate of coral reef ecosystems in response to ocean acidification.

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created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

First controlled experiments on ocean acidification in the deep sea

(PhysOrg.com) -- After six years of design and testing, MBARI scientists have a sophisticated new tool for studying the effects of ocean acidification on deep-sea animals. This complex system, the Free-Ocean ...

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created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Increased acidity not an even test for coral reefs

Coral reefs can both positively and negatively influence the acidity of their surrounding seawater. That is the take-home message of two papers recently published in the international journal Global Change Bi ...

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Run-off, emissions deliver double whammy to coastal marine creatures, study finds

Increasing acidification in coastal waters could compromise the ability of oysters and other marine creatures to form and keep their shells, according to a new study led by University of Georgia researchers.

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created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers explore plankton's shifting role in deep sea carbon storage

The tiny phytoplankton Emiliania huxleyi, invisible to the naked eye, plays an outsized role in drawing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it deep in the seas. But this role may change as ocean water becomes warmer ...

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created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Earth is having a bad acid trip, study finds

Earth may be overdosing on acid - not the "turn on, tune in, drop out" kind, but the "kill fish, kill coral, kill crops" kind. And it's shaping up to be a very bad trip.

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created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Understanding methane's seabed escape

A shipboard expedition off Norway, to determine how methane escapes from beneath the Arctic seabed, has discovered widespread pockets of the gas and numerous channels that allow it to reach the seafloor.

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created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists: Bacteria spreading in warming oceans

(AP) -- Warning: The warming of the world's oceans can cause serious illness and may cost millions of euros (dollars) in health care charges.

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created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 5

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