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Acid test: Study reveals both losers and winners of CO2-induced ocean acidification

Acid test: Study reveals both losers and winners of CO2-induced ocean acidification

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world’s seawater becomes more acidic due to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, some shelled marine creatures may actually become bigger and stronger, according to a new study.


All decked out: Networks of chitin filaments are integral components of diatom silica shells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A whole microcosm of various bizarrely shaped life forms opens up when you look at diatoms, the primary component of ocean plankton, under a microscope. The regularly structured silica shells of these tiny ...


Living buildings could mop up carbon dioxide

Living buildings could mop up carbon dioxide

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Architecture could help us tackle climate change, if we start to design our buildings with 'living' materials, according to Dr Rachel Armstrong, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.


Ocean acidification may contribute to global shellfish decline

Ocean acidification may contribute to global shellfish decline

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Relatively minor increases in ocean acidity brought about by high levels of carbon dioxide have significant detrimental effects on the growth, development, and survival of hard clams, bay scallops, and Eastern ...


Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues on Climate Change

Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues on Climate Change

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Deep under the sea, a fossil the size of a sand grain is nestled among a billion of its closest dead relatives. Known as foraminifera, these complex little shells of calcium carbonate can tell you the sea ...


Research finds higher acidity in Alaska waters (AP)

Research finds higher acidity in Alaska waters

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(AP) -- Erosion threatens to topple coastal Alaskan villages. Melting ice threatens polar bears. Now, a marine scientist says the state's marine waters are turning acidic from absorbing greenhouse gases faster ...


The adherence mechanism of red algae to the rocks is discovered

The adherence mechanism of red algae to the rocks is discovered

Biology / Other

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Geologists of the University of Granada, Spain, have described for the first time ever the biological mechanism that explains how calcareous red algae grow on rocky substrates.


Plants save the earth from an icy doom

Plants Save the Earth from an Icy Doom (w/ Podcast)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fifty million years ago, the North and South Poles were ice-free and crocodiles roamed the Arctic. Since then, a long-term decrease in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has cooled the Earth. ...


Making nanoparticles in artificial cells

Making nanoparticles in artificial cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two new construction manuals are now available for the world's smallest lamps. Based on these protocols, scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have tailor-made nanoparticles that ...


Scientists: Global warming has already changed oceans

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (63) | comments 4

In Washington state, oysters in some areas haven't reproduced for four years, and preliminary evidence suggests that the increasing acidity of the ocean could be the cause. In the Gulf of Mexico, falling oxygen levels in ...


Who will pick up the bill? Possible job cuts and revenue loss as a result of ocean acidification

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (39) | comments 4

Ocean acidification, a direct result of increased CO2 emission, is set to change the Earth's marine ecosystems forever and may have a direct impact on our economy, resulting in substantial revenue declines and job losses.


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Studies shed light on collapse of coral reefs (w/Video)

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An explosion of knowledge has been made in the last few years about the basic biology of corals, researchers say in a new report, helping to explain why coral reefs around the world are collapsing and what ...


Shellfish face an uncertain future in a high CO2 world

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Overfishing and disease have decimated shellfish populations in many of the world's temperate estuarine and coastal ecosystems. Smithsonian scientists, led by Whitman Miller, ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research ...


How solid is concrete's carbon footprint?

How Solid Is Concrete's Carbon Footprint?

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many scientists currently think at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the carbon dioxide (CO2) byproduct from the produc ...


Focus on the formation of bones, teeth and shells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology for the first time have shown the earliest stages in biomineralization, the process that leads to the formation of bones, teeth and sea shells.