The process of ocean acidification is well documented in field data, and the rate will accelerate over this century unless future CO2 emissions are curbed dramatically. Acidification alters seawater chemical speciation and biogeochemical cycles of many elements and compounds. One well-known effect is ...
Ocean acidification is an ongoing large-scale environmental problem, whereby the absorption of anthropogenic CO2 by the ocean lowers its pH, impacting ocean ecosystems worldwide1. The California Current System (CCS) supports productive fisheries crucial to the US economy and is particularly vulnerable ...
Ocean acidification is the ongoing increase in the acidity of the Earth’s oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Increasing acidity is having harmful consequences for marine organisms, such as altering metabolic rates and immune responses in some organisms and c...
Citation:Barker, S. & Ridgwell, A.(2012)Ocean Acidification.Nature Education Knowledge3(10):21 What is the 'other carbon dioxide problem'? How are humans driving changes in the chemistry of the ocean, and what might this mean for marine ecosystems in the future?
This article summarises the sometimes controversial contributions made by the different sciences to predict the path of ocean acidification impacts on the diversity of coral reefs during the present century. Although the seawater carbonate system has bee
Ocean acidification, also referred to as the ‘other CO2 problem’ or the ‘evil twin of global warming’, is caused by CO2 dissolving into the oceans. As atmospheric CO2 levels increase, more CO2 dissolves into the oceans and forms carbonic acid, which dissociates to form hydrogen and bicarb...
In addition, ocean pH is falling, a process known as ocean acidification (OA). The root cause of OA lies in human policies and behaviours driving society's dependence on fossil fuels, resulting in elevated CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. In this review, we detail the state of knowledge...
Cosimo Solidoro, Valentina Turk, and Serena Zunino Abstract Despite the progress in the international and regional governance efforts at the level of climate change, ocean acidification (OA) remains a global problem with profoundly negative environmental, social, and economical consequences....
The carbon dioxide that the sea absorbs undergoes a chemical reaction with the water to create carbonic acid in a process known as ocean acidification. Though the acid is weak, it’s plentiful enough to cause problems, likedisrupting the formation of shellsin many marine species. An international...
(CO2) in the air is the acidification of water. Oceans naturally absorb the greenhouse gas; in fact, they take in roughly one third of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by human activities. When CO2dissolves in water, it forms carbonic acid, the same substance found in ...