Posted on EPOCA: 21 Jun 2012 This paper provides a synthesis of the long- and short-term response of various marine ecosystems (deep oceans, pelagic, pelitic shelves and carbonate platforms) to the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) and its broader paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic context. Despite the severity and sudden onset of
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Ocean Acidification could negatively affect 50% of marine organisms by the end of the century
Posted on EPOCA: 20 Jun 2012 — A partnership which includes the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme, highlighted its concern about the impacts of the multiple and interacting stressors of warming, acidification and deoxygenation on ocean systems, which will occur in
Acid test for marine life
Posted on EPOCA: 19 Jun 2012 In Rio de Janeiro this week, environmental leaders from many nations are addressing one of our planet’s most serious yet still vastly under-recognized challenges: ocean acidification. Ocean acidification, a process in which seawater chemistry changes when the ocean absorbs rising levels of atmospheric carbon
Persistent carry-over effects of planktonic exposure to ocean acidification in the Olympia oyster
Posted on EPOCA: 19 Jun 2012 — BOAR Group scientists: Overall, our results suggest that a stringent focus on a single phase of the life cycle (e.g., one perceived as the “weakest link”), may neglect critical impacts that can be transferred across life stages in taxa with complex life histories.
Did you hear the one about the oyster-killing California Current? Big Media turn backs (but Climate Central already on it).
Posted on National Association of Science Writers: 18 Jun 2012, by Charlie Petit — A compilation of articles on the Gruber et al study, and other recent news about OA Maybe it’s like the Swiss Navy, the punchline for a joke. After all, what does Nicolas Gruber, a guy