Our oceans are becoming too acidic, to the point where they are unable to help maintain marine ecosystems and the climate, ...

Ocean acidification is sinking into marine regions as deep as 1500 metres, posing new threats to organisms like sea butterflies, sea snails and cold-water corals. The ocean is the largest natural sink ...

All sea life will be affected because carbon dioxide emissions from modern society are making the oceans more acidic, a major new report will say. The eight-year study from more than 250 ...

power plants and other human sources are absorbed by the world's oceans. The result? A frightening phenomenon that's making seawater more acidic, spelling disaster for many marine animals, from ...

Oceans get more acidic when more carbon gets into the atmosphere. In pre-industrial times, that occurred periodically in natural pulses of carbon that also pushed up global temperatures ...

Castello Aragonese offers a natural analogue for an unnatural process: The acidification that has taken place off its shore is occurring more gradually across the world's oceans, as they absorb ...

Marine biologists, studying the impact of ocean acidification, which occurs when carbon dioxide dissolves in sea water, have found that it affects the ability of fish to smell, reports the Telegraph.

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 ...