Acid oceans increasing rapidly
Mother Jones
by Julia Whitty
10/17/07
We’ve known for a while that ocean acidification is a bad bad thing. Now new research into corals using boron isotopes indicates the world-ocean has become about one third of a pH unit more acid over the past fifty years, reports the Australian Research Council. The acidity is caused by a CO2 buildup in the atmosphere, which then dissolves into the oceans — a development likely to be lethal for animals with chalky skeletons, who just happen to comprise more than a third of the planet’s marine life...
http://tinyurl.com/3ao7mf
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Julia+Whitty
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=acid+oceans
by Julia Whitty
10/17/07
We’ve known for a while that ocean acidification is a bad bad thing. Now new research into corals using boron isotopes indicates the world-ocean has become about one third of a pH unit more acid over the past fifty years, reports the Australian Research Council. The acidity is caused by a CO2 buildup in the atmosphere, which then dissolves into the oceans — a development likely to be lethal for animals with chalky skeletons, who just happen to comprise more than a third of the planet’s marine life...
http://tinyurl.com/3ao7mf
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Julia+Whitty
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=acid+oceans
rudkla - 19. Okt, 11:29
