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At Copenhagen global warming conference, alarms on ocean acidification

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At the Copenhagen global warming conference, researchers have been seeking attention to what's often been an issue in the climate change debate: increasing ocean acidity and its risks for fisheries. Walk the halls at the cavernous Bella Conference center and it's no surprise that global warming gets all the buzz, all the time. Carbon dioxide's other effect, to increase the acidity of sea water, is a bit like the toddler constantly ...

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14 hours ago ago from Ocean acidification

As talks in Copenhagen enter a critical phase, UK Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has warned of the threat that ocean acidification has to marine life and global food supplies. He said that acidification provides a powerful incentive to cut carbon emissions. A recent report by the UN has warned that the world's biggest insurance policy against rapid warming are soaking up carbon at such a rate that acidity could increase 150% by ...

Synthesis Study Finds Ocean Acidification from CO2 Emissions Could Increase by 150% by 2050; Substantial Irreversible Damage to Ocean Ecosystems

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Given increasing emissions of CO 2 and the subsequent increased absorption by the oceans, ocean acidity could increase by 150% by 2050, according to a major new review and synthesis study released by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This is an increase 100 times faster than any change in acidity experienced in the marine environment over the last 20 million years, giving little time for evolutionary adaptation ...

Unusual deep sea species

14 hours ago ago from The Art of Science

More scientific art. I'm a sucker for pretty pictures and photographs of bizarre animals. Compiled by Scientific American : More than 340 scientists from around the world have been working over the past nine years to complete the Census of Marine Life , a project that has sent out dozens of expeditions to document ocean life at all levels of the sea. Final results from the survey will be announced next October, but preliminary ...

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Sections Most Earth-Like Extrasolar Planet Found Right Next Door Meet GJ 1214b, the most Earth-like planet ever found outside our solar system. It's not exactly Earth's twin: It's about six times bigger, a whole lot hotter and made mostly of water. But compared to the giant gas balls that account for nearly every other extrasolar planet ever found, it's pretty darn close. And through a ...

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