Dr. Richard Feely of NOAA’s Pacific Marine Experimental Lab discusses new findings about how increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the oceans more acidic, and what that bodes for ocean ecosystems and the marine animals that inhabit them.

(1) What is ocean acidification (1:38)

(2) How are ocean animals affected? (2:25)

(3) How will ocean ecosystems be affected? (3:03)