Posted on EPOCA: 27 Jun 2011 When sulphur and nitrogen gases from ship fuel and other local sources of combustion end up in coastal waters, they strongly diminish ocean acidification by carbon dioxide. Keith Hunter at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and his colleagues used a simple
Month: June 2011
World leading Australian marine scientists feature in new online education resources
Posted on EPOCA: 24 Jun 2011 What is ocean acidification? What causes ocean acidification? How does ocean acidification impact on coral reefs? Are today’s conditions very different from the past? Can we predict how ocean acidification will impact on coral reefs in the future? World leading Australian marine scientists Professor
Shelly cells help scientists gauge ocean acidification effects
Posted on EPOCA: 23 Jun 2011 Scientists have pinpointed they way the cells of ubiquitous marine algae are affected by ocean acidification. The discovery, published this week in the journal PLOS biology, represents a breakthrough in understanding in exactly how ocean acidification will impact marine organisms. The team, led by
Trouble on the Half Shell
Baby oysters and carbon dioxide don’t mix. Jennifer Langston on June 22, 2011 gautsch.net-flickr Four summers ago, Sue Cudd couldn’t keep a baby oyster alive. She’d start with hundreds of millions of oyster larvae in the tanks at the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Netarts, Oregon. Only a handful would
Marine life facing mass extinction, report says
By Thair Shaikh, CNN — Posted on EPOCA, June 22, 2011 A coral reef in Honolulu, Hawaii Marine life is under severe threat from global warming, pollution and habitat loss, with a high risk of “major extinctions” according to a panel of experts. These are the conclusions of
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