By absorbing over 90% of excess heat from greenhouse gases, warmer seas fuel stronger, more destructive storms.

The Chesapeake Bay is the continental United States' largest estuary, spanning approximately 320 kilometers (200 miles) ...

Global observations of ocean acidification over the last four decades serve as the basis. 12.09.2023 by Michael Keller (Image: Nicolas Gruber & Luke Gregor / ETH Zurich: Ocean acidification from 1982 ...

By the end of this century the ocean is expected to be 150% more acidic than it is now. Acidification is threatening marine life. It’s killing baby oysters, deep-sea coral reefs and pteropods ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. The acidification of the Earth's oceans is expected to triple by 2100, and could lead to major impacts on ...

The measurements reveal a slight but consistent trend of ocean acidification, a process characterized by a decrease in the ocean’s pH over time due to its absorption of carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the ...

"Thanks to this study we have been able to prove that in highly plastic-polluted ocean surface areas, plastic degradation will lead to a drop of up to 0.5 pH units, which is comparable to the pH ...

Welcome to today’s edition of Boiling Point. I’m Ian James, a reporter on The Times climate and environment team, filling in for my colleague Sammy Roth. As the burning of fossil fuels and ...

Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) have for the first time shown that increased acidification of ...

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But that timeless tactic appears to be at risk, as new research shows that climate change–induced ocean acidification seems to cause Dungeness crabs’ antennae to falter. Researchers at the ...