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Oceans Acidifying at Unprecedented Rates – Conference

Oceans are now acidifying faster than anytime in the past 300 million years of Earth’s history, noted Bristol University scientist Daniela  Schmidt recently, at the Third International Symposium on the Ocean in a High- CO2 World, reports Allison Winter at … Continue reading

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West Coast Oysters, Others, Threatened by Global Warming

West Coast shellfish growers have learned to work around upwellings of corrosive waters and save the lives of their oyster stocks reports Laine Welch at the Alaska Journal of Commerce. Increased levels of carbon dioxide, or CO2, in the atmosphere are … Continue reading

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