Ocean acidification, caused by the ongoing absorption of atmospheric CO₂, poses threats to marine ecosystems and biodiversity ...

With a global average pH of 8.1 ocean water is slightly alkaline. But the good news is that our bodies can handle it – unsurprising since the uterine fluid that we grow in ranges from neutral to ...

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 ...

Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean acidification reduces primary production, the process of photosynthesis in ...

The OA-ICC is an IAEA Peaceful Uses Initiative project launched at the UN Rio+20 conference in 2012 following increasing concern from IAEA Member States about ocean acidification. The Centre responds ...

Dehradun: Ocean acidification is accelerating at an alarming rate, with ocean surface pH declining globally at –0.017 ± 0.001 pH units per decade from 1985 to 2023, according to the World ...

A new study published in the Nature journal last month links storm season intensity in B.C. to how strong ocean acidification (the pH of seawater) is in the northern Strait of Georgia — an arm ...

Sign our petition to help protect ocean life ... campaign to fight acidification is using the Clean Water Act to stop the pollution that's causing it — greenhouse gas emissions — as well as to improve ...

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 ...