Month: December 2011

Calcium carbonate production response to future ocean warming and acidification

Posted on EPOCA: 14 Dec 2011 Anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are acidifying the ocean, affecting calcification rates in pelagic organisms and thereby modifying the oceanic alkalinity cycle. However, the responses of pelagic calcifying organisms to acidification vary widely between species, contributing uncertainty to predictions of atmospheric CO2 and the resulting

Acidic oceans threaten fish

By Hannah Hoag, posted 11 December 2011 — Stocks could suffer as seas soak up more carbon dioxide. Caption: Fish could be most susceptible to carbon dioxide when in the egg, or just hatched. HANNES BAUMANN  Ocean acidification — caused by climate change — looks likely to damage crucial fish