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Fossil Fuels Causing Fastest Ocean Acidification in 300 Million Years
The world’s oceans are turning acidic much faster than any time in the past 300 million years, even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56 million years ago. That emission caused a 5,000 year hot spell, … 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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