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As the world's oceans are bound to become more acidic than ever before, researchers are gearing up to face the consequences by trying to understand what the effects of this process will be. Analyzing organisms known as coccolithophores might help in this regard, a new study shows.
The organisms have the tend... |
1 June 2011
02:22 GMT |
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A group of experts at the Stanford University announce the release of the first legal “roadmap” to fighting oceanic acidification-inducing pollution at the local level. The document also includes steps that authorities can take in these issues.
In addition to global greenhouse gas emission rates, the ... |
28 May 2011
03:21 GMT |
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Marine experts and oceanographers believe that a monitoring network to cover all of the world's oceans should have been set into place years ago,and is therefore long overdue. Such a sensor network could be used to keep track of all the changes that take place in the global waters, such as for example how reefs ... |
1 November 2010
05:23 GMT |
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Officials at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) announce that they have awarded 21 new research grants to research groups conducting research into oceanic acidification. The phenomenon is spread on a global scale, and it refers to a drop in the pH levels of saltwater. As this happens, the seas and oceans become... |
14 October 2010
04:01 GMT |
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Over the past century, our planet has been warming at a slow but sure rate. Largely the byproduct of human pollution and the release of vast amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, this global warming has been triggering a host of side-effects, including the acidification of the world's oceans. This happe... |
12 June 2010
03:47 GMT |
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Things have changed in climate researches from the way they were not ten years ago. At the time, the problem of ocean acidification was an issue known to only a few scientists and oceanographers. Now, the international scientific community recognizes that this phenomenon is one of the most important contributors and ... |
19 May 2010
18:01 GMT |
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With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, humans began putting more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The amount of the greenhouse gas has been increasing steadily since then, and is currently at very high levels, with billions of tons being emitted annually. In addition to the global warming effect th... |
29 March 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Experts have just finished developing a new climate model, which is capable of accurately assessing the rate at which the Earth's oceans are getting more acidic. According to preliminary data obtained by running it, it would appear that the rate of changes in the carbonate chemistry of the waters increases now f... |
15 February 2010
10:26 GMT |
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A new scientific research that looked at large swaths of the Pacific Ocean has determined that the body of water is becoming increasingly acidic as the years pass. Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Marine Science analyzed water from various locations and depths in the Pacific northeast, ... |
21 January 2010
05:30 GMT |
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As the 2009 UN Climate Summit (COP15) resumes in Copenhagen today, more and more officials from the 190 countries involved in the discussions keep flying to the Danish capital. Today, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the United Kingdom, Hilary Ben, is scheduled to hold a speech in fro... |
14 December 2009
01:40 GMT |
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In spite of covering a huge part of the planet, the world's oceans are still one of its biggest mysteries. Each deep-sea study and tsunami brings to the surface weird, new fish species, and isolated ecosystems, confined to only a certain location on the map, are constantly being discovered. Now, the US National ... |
6 October 2009
08:44 GMT |
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Over the past few years, global warming and climate change woes have made engineers think of new and innovative solutions of preventing the planet's temperature from going up, endangering or forcing to go extinct countless species in the process, alongside billions of humans. One of the proposed solutions was in... |
17 June 2009
08:37 GMT |
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Recognizing ocean acidification as one of the most severe issues that will confront the world in years to come, the United Kingdom has recently approved the investment of £11 million ($16 million) into a five-year scientific study of the phenomenon. Current wisdom has it that the level of carbon dioxide in the ... |
28 April 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Coral reefs are in danger of soon beginning to dissolve completely, a new scientific study to be published on March 13th in the online edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letter shows. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who have been behind the research, say that, i... |
10 March 2009
04:53 GMT |
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During the 1980s, the theory of ocean acidification as a result of the greenhouse effect arose and has been attempted a demonstration ever since. The recent atmospheric carbon dioxide level measurements proved it, as well as its impact on oceans. Besides the negative results of the acidification of the planet's ... |
1 October 2008
11:06 GMT |
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Water surfaces, oceans and seas in particular, are natural sinkholes for carbon dioxide gas. And it just so happens that man made sure that Earth's atmosphere has plenty of carbon dioxide, which is absorbed into water, thus making it more acidic in the respective areas. This in turn affects the marine life such ... |
9 June 2008
04:43 GMT |
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An international team of researchers participating in a study on board the Oregon State University vessel have discovered high levels of acidified ocean water within as little as 32 kilometers away from the shoreline of the West Coast of the North American continent. The acidic water is probably 50 years old and is b... |
23 May 2008
03:00 GMT |
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