New findings show that some coastal regions will become far more acidic than scientists once thought, with upwelling systems ...

Rising ocean acidity weakens corals, boosts algae and makes reefs flatter. Even small chemical changes reshape reef life.

On a remote coral reef near Papua New Guinea, endless streams of bubbles rise from cracks in the seabed into the shallow ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that some coastal areas will become much more acidic than previously anticipated. With added atmospheric CO2, these areas are acidifying more ...

Shark teeth could lose their cutting edge as oceans become more acidic, new research warns. Scientists in Germany say rising carbon dioxide levels may erode the very weapons that predators rely on for ...

By the year 2100, rising carbon dioxide levels are expected to alter ocean chemistry so severely that coral reef communities ...

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New research reveals that coastal oceans are acidifying faster than previously predicted, posing an existential threat to the global economy ...

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As carbon dioxide is absorbed by the world's oceans, they become more corrosive. That's happening faster here.