A global look at ocean pH reveals that the water is more alkaline (basic) in the open ocean compared with many coastal regions. The more alkaline the water, the better poised it is to resist ocean ...

Ocean pH fluctuates most in the colder waters off Siberia and Alaska, ... Citation: New global maps detail human-caused ocean acidification (2014, November 10) ...

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 ...

Climatological distributions of pH, pCO2, total CO2, alkalinity, and CaCO3 saturation in the global surface ocean, and temporal changes at selected locations. Marine Chemistry , 2014; 164: 95 DOI ...

New research maps areas most vulnerable to ocean acidification Date: October 13, 2015 ... Excess carbon dioxide enters the ocean, reacts with water, decreases ocean pH and lowers carbonate ion ...

As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, the ocean plays a crucial role in helping to reduce the full impact of ...

In addition to the where, the maps also show when the oceans are more or less acidic — since month by month, pH values rise and fall at different parts of the ocean’s surface, with the largest ...

Average pH in the world's oceans has fallen from 8.2 to 8.1 since the start of the industrial era, a 30 percent increase in acidity, and pH is expected to fall to an average of 7.8 to 7.9 by 2100 ...

The map below shows how the maximum catch potential of roughly 1,000 marine species will be redistributed. The report predicts that warming will cause high extinction rates in the tropics and semi ...

New satellite maps show the variation in ocean acidity across the globe, ... the surface pH of the ocean has become 30 percent more acidic since the end of the Industrial Revolution.

Using satellite measurements, researchers at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and their colleagues have created global maps of ocean acidity that show which areas are most affected.