Sentences with phrase «acidic water showed»

But the clownfish in more acidic water showed no preference for moving away from the threatening sound, while those exposed to normal levels of acidity move away from the perceived danger source.

Not exact matches

Experiments at UC Davis» Bodega Marine Laboratory show that the snails lose this escape response as waters become more acidic, a consequence of climate change.

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.

The team's research shows that currently the dissolving of living shells and non-living aragonite and calcite minerals has provided a self - regulating mechanism to buffer or prevent the Chesapeake Bay's bottom waters from becoming acidic.

The analysis showed that acidic waters make it impossible for marine cement — limestone that precipitates out of the seawater as it flows against the coral reef — to form both between individual coral polyps as well as to anchor the entire reef ecosystem against the waves.

You can't tell by standing on a beach and watching waves roll in, but experiments show that ocean water is becoming more acidic.

This experiment shows that acidic water hurts coral reefs, but that coral might survive and regrow if conditions improve.

Previous research by Dixson and others has shown that as water becomes more acidic, it begins to interfere with a structure — called a receptor — on cells in a fish's brain.

My husband tested before and after lemon water showed the lemon water having the same acidic effect that I saw.

Analysis showed that these striking clay bands formed because the usual microscopic calcium - rich shells were absent - dissolved away by acidic sea waters.

On December 6, the PBS News Hour showed a segment titled «Endangered Coral Reefs Die as Ocean Temperatures Rise and Water Turns Acidic,» with Hari Sreenivasan reporting.

Reports show the ocean's unique ecosystems are adapting to fluctuation in water temperatures likely caused by global warming, but increasing acidic levels may prove fatal for the world's coral reefs.

They have shown sensitivity to lower pH, and pockets of acidic water are beginning to show up in their habitats.

McLaughlin's research shows that there is now evidence for falling concentrations of aragonite — the result of surface waters becoming more acidic because of the sea ice melting — making it more difficult for the shellfish to maintain their shells.