Earth's oceans are changing due to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Museum palaeontologist Prof Richard Twitchett explains, 'Ocean acidification is a change in the pH of seawater, ...

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 ...

With a global average pH of 8.1 ocean water is slightly alkaline. But the good news is that our bodies can handle it – unsurprising since the uterine fluid that we grow in ranges from neutral to ...

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?

In northern winter, the Bering Sea, dividing Alaska and Siberia, becomes the most acidic region on earth (in purple) as shown in this February 2005 acidity map in pH scale. Temperate oceans are ...

Ocean acidification, caused by the ongoing absorption of atmospheric CO₂, poses threats to marine ecosystems and biodiversity ...

"This work presents by far the most comprehensive whole-Earth system model to estimate how ocean pH likely evolved during Earth's history." The term pH ("potential of hydrogen") is a measure of ...

Ocean acidification, a consequence of climate change caused by the ocean’s absorption of carbon dioxide (CO 2), is threatening the environment. Because of its global scale, addressing ocean ...

Dehradun: Ocean acidification is accelerating at an alarming rate, with ocean surface pH declining globally at –0.