Sentences with phrase «acidic water grew»

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Cross says that as the oceans absorb more carbon dioxide, the more acidic the water becomes, which hurts marine life and makes it harder for organisms to grow skeletons and build shells.

Although carbon capture and storage has attracted a growing number of advocates, including environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, it has also attracted its fair share of detractors, such as Greenpeace, and skeptics including the U.S. Geological Survey's Yousif Kharaka (pdf), who has shown that leaking CO2 can make surrounding water acidic, mix with brine and leach metals, and pose potential health risks to people and wildlife.

How will marine life respond to ocean waters that are growing ever more acidic?

This change may happen because the fish have to use energy to get rid of acidic water, rather than to grow.

Witch hazel grows best in acidic (pH value of 6 or less), rich, and moist soils and requires regular watering.

The mold form of Blasto grows in sandy, acidic soil, that is in close proximity to water.

It focused on laboratory tests in which coccolithophores were grown in water made more acidic by infusing it with bubbles of air with elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide.

Some coccolithophores grew better in water made more acidic by elevating carbon dioxide concentrations.

Absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere is another way oceans mitigate greenhouse gas impacts, although marine waters are growing increasingly acidic as a result.

Presently, more acidic waters brought up from the deeper ocean to the surface by wind and currents off the Northwest coast of the United States are having this effect on oysters grown in aquaculture.