News tagged with acidification
Acidic oceans could aid photosynthesis
May 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Groundbreaking Victoria University research shows that ocean acidification may have no negative effect on tropical corals and local sea anemones - in fact it may improve photosynthesis.
Ocean acidification is accelerating and severe damages are imminent
Jan 30, 2009 |
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Urgent action is needed to limit damages to marine ecosystems, including coral reefs and fisheries, due to increasing ocean acidity, according to 155 of the world’s scientific experts who will release the Monaco Declaration ...
Organic soils continue to acidify despite reduction in acidic deposition
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Following the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 and 1990 acidic deposition in North America has declined significantly since its peak in 1973. Consequently, research has shifted from studying the effects of acidic deposition ...
Ocean acidification could have broad effects on marine ecosystems
Dec 17, 2008 |
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Concern about increasing ocean acidification has often focused on its potential effects on coral reefs, but broader disruptions of biological processes in the oceans may be more significant, according to Donald Potts, a professor ...
Climate Change Seeps into the Sea
Oct 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Good news has turned out to be bad. The ocean has helped slow global warming by absorbing much of the excess heat and heat-trapping carbon dioxide that has been going into the atmosphere since ...
Carbon dioxide poses risk to marine life survival
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Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change and the subsequent acidification of the world's oceans will significantly reduce the successful fertilisation of certain marine species by the year 2100, an international team ...
More acidic ocean could spell trouble for marine life's earliest stages
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Jul 31, 2008 |
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Increasingly acidic conditions in the ocean—brought on as a direct result of rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere—could spell trouble for the earliest stages of marine life, according to a new report in the August ...
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