Museum palaeontologist Prof Richard Twitchett explains, 'Ocean acidification is a change in the pH of seawater, which is normally around neutral'. The pH scale measures a substance's acidity or ...

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Estuaries, including Puget Sound and Chesapeake Bay, have naturally low pH that may be pushed over the edge by future levels of ocean acidification. What can I do about ocean acidification? Although ...

In northern winter, the Bering Sea, dividing Alaska and Siberia, becomes the most acidic region on earth (in purple) as shown in this February 2005 acidity map in pH scale. Temperate oceans are ...

The oceans play a pivotal role in drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) and have so far acted as a brake on the full ...

Ocean acidification occurs when the oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but cannot sequester it quickly enough. The excess levels of carbon dioxide in the water lead to lower pH ...

Ocean acidification threatens marine biodiversity. Coral reefs, which are already under stress from warming waters, face further challenges as the reduced carbonate ion concentration makes it harder ...

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Ocean acidification is the lowering of seawater pH over time, as the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the atmosphere. The pH scale is used to measure how acidic or basic a water-based solution ...

Ocean acidification is mainly caused by carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere dissolving into the ocean. This leads to a lowering of the water's pH, making the ocean more acidic. Carbon dioxide is ...