Month: March 2012

Carbon dioxide and our oceans

Posted on EPOCA: 23 Mar 2012 — Jean-Pierre Gattuso & Lina Hansson, OUPblog The impact of man’s fossil fuel burning and deforestation on Earth’s climate can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention. But there is a second, much less known, consequence of our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. A large part of

On the front lines of ocean acidification

Posted on EPOCA: 15 Mar 2012  Carin Bondar is a biologist, TV host and science communicator with a PhD in population ecology from the University of British Columbia. She blogs for Scientific American and Huffington Post and has appeared in a scientific capacity on various international television networks. Her writing