Over the past 200 years, our planet’s oceans have absorbed more than a quarter of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As a result, their acidity has increased by nearly 30 percent their [...] recently demonstrated. If this comes to pass, it could have far-reaching consequences for life in the ocean, as they report in the journal Nature.
Oceanacidification A new study in the prestigious journal Science Advances shows that stress from rising water temperatures reduces ability of corals to adapt to oceanacidification.
of the Paris Climate Agreement is not achieved. Under conditions of further warming and acidification of the ocean, Atlantic cod and its arctic relative polar cod would be forced to look for new habitats
New Study If carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere and thereby in the ocean continue to rise, this could favour the mass development of toxic algae, with far-reaching consequences for the
vulnerable to oceanacidification. The increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to an increased absorption of CO2 in the cold waters of the polar oceans and enhances the acidification there
OceanAcidification In November 2017, the German research network on oceanacidification BIOACID (Biological Impacts of OceanAcidification) reaches its conclusion after eight years of extensive in [...] from 20 German institutions clearly indicate that oceanacidification and warming, along with other environmental stressors, impair life in the ocean and compromise important ecosystem services it provides
Climate change Tropical coral reefs lose up to two thirds of their zooplankton through oceanacidification. This is the conclusion reached by a German-Australian research team that examined two reefs [...] the seabed, lowering the water's acidity to a level, which scientists predict for the future of the oceans. The researchers believe that the decline in zooplankton is due to the loss of suitable hiding places [...] places. It results from the changes in the coral reef community due to increasing acidification. Instead of densely branched branching corals, robust mounding species of hard coral grow, offering the z