The ocean stores a huge amount of carbon, but excessive human emissions are changing its chemistry. It's becoming more acidic — hitting marine ecosystems and causing coral reefs to crumble. Two ...

Q. At what level of hydrogen ion concentration in the ocean will the coral reefs and other calcifiers begin to show signs of dissolution? – Submitted by Mackenzie B., 12, Key West, Fl. The hydrogen ...

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has detrimental effects on the environment. While we have been dangerously close to the ...

There are few in situ studies showing how net community calcification (Gnet) of coral reefs is related to carbonate chemistry, and the studies to date have demonstrated different predicted rates of ...

A new study led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC), with colleagues from the British Antarctic Survey, the Institute of Oceanology, the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of ...

The coastal protection coral reefs currently provide will start eroding by the end of the century, as the world continues to warm and the oceans acidify. The rate of erosion of calcium carbonate on ...

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Around 120 million years ago, the earth experienced an extreme environmental disruption that choked oxygen from its oceans. Known as oceanic anoxic event (OAE) 1a, the ...

Ocean acidification, one of many devastating effects of the warming earth, has been well-documented. It’s no longer up for debate. We now know that this process is adversely affecting many of the ...