The Chesapeake Bay is the continental United States' largest estuary, spanning approximately 320 kilometers (200 miles) ...

On our planet, the cycle and balance of carbon from reservoir to reservoir is a matter of life or death. Carbon moves from ...

What is the 'other carbon dioxide problem'? How are humans driving changes in the chemistry of the ocean, and what might this mean for marine ecosystems in the future?

Castello Aragonese offers a natural analogue for an unnatural process: The acidification ... a marine ecologist, has called ocean acidification global warming's "equally evil twin." ...

The OA-ICC is an IAEA Peaceful Uses Initiative project launched at the UN Rio+20 conference in 2012 following increasing concern from IAEA Member States about ocean acidification. The Centre responds ...

There are few in situ studies showing how net community calcification (Gnet) of coral reefs is related to carbonate chemistry, and the studies to date have demonstrated different predicted rates of ...

A new study by Ruhr University aquatic biologists shows that freshwater acidification may be catching up -- and even surpassing -- ocean acidification in a race that may harm essential parts of ...