Sentences with phrase «acidification poses»

Ocean acidification poses an added danger to corals and other sea animals that need calcium carbonate to build shells or skeletons.3, 11,12 As concentrations of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere rise, the oceans absorb carbon dioxide and become more acidic.

The faster people understand how ocean acidification poses a threat to that way of life, the better our chance of protecting it.

Many studies have demonstrated the risks that ocean acidification pose to marine organisms, such as coral dissolving in more acidic water.6 However, new findings suggest that the August and September time period could be particularly challenging for the earliest life stage of elkhorn coral — an important reef - forming coral of the Caribbean — if we continue on a path of high carbon dioxide emissions.5 Ordinarily each August or September elkhorn corals flood the water with eggs and sperm (gametes) for sexual reproduction.2

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While the threat of coral bleaching as a result of climate change poses a serious risk to the future of coral reefs world wide, new research has found that some baby corals may be able to cope with the negative effects of ocean acidification.

Marine biodiversity is in jeopardy from human activities such as acidification from carbon emissions, posing an existential threat to many marine animals, Wiens said.

«The obvious solution to the potential threats posed by acidification,» the authors say, «is to make rapid and substantial cuts to anthropogenic CO2 emissions.»

Pandolfi and colleagues review the threats posed to coral reefs by increased ocean heat content and acidification and point to the role of evolution in buffering populations.

They believe that the threats posed from ocean acidification (OA) and ocean warming can, at least to some extent, be balanced by adaptation and evolution.

Changing living conditions caused by climate change or ocean acidification — the decrease of ocean pH due to the uptake of human - induced carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — pose serious threats to marine organisms.

Climate change poses a dual threat to coral reefs in the form of increased ocean temperatures and ocean acidification.

More information on the effects of ocean acidification is a major environmental priority because of the threat it poses to certain processes, organisms and ecosystems.

«The region is profoundly affected by climate change — including loss of sea ice, acidification of the ocean, and increased access for industries that pose significant risks to the ocean environment.»

However, this prognosis does not take into account the additional risks posed by ocean acidification.

The slow onset processes of temperature rise, sea level rise, salinization, ocean acidification, and desertification all pose substantial and ever increasing threats to future food production and the lives and livelihoods of food producers and fisherfolk.

At the Copenhagen conference in December 2009 the Director of the U.S. Navy Task Force on Climate Change, Rear Admiral David Titley gave a somber assessment of the risks presented by climate change, including the likely need for greater humanitarian and disaster relief missions, and the dangers posed by such «wild cards» as ocean acidification and rising sea levels.

The risks of the Anthropocene include the many associated with climate change but also with ocean acidification and a gamut of other impacts such as those posed by an excess of nitrogen.

The environmental changes brought on by ocean acidification could pose a significant threat to Arctic ecosystems that are already facing challenges from changes in sea ice distribution, warming and increased freshwater discharge.

Health eff ects from changes to the environment including climatic change, ocean acidification, land degradation, water scarcity, overexploitation of fisheries, and biodiversity loss pose serious challenges to the global health gains of the past several decades and are likely to become increasingly dominant during the second half of this century and beyond.

Ocean acidification is already responsible for declines in hatchery production in Washington's Pacific inlets, posing a major threat to the state's shellfish industry.

Carbon dioxide however does pose a problem for the oceans, contributing to coral bleaching and acidification of natural waters.

Ocean acidification is posing a new threat to shellfish, and marine industries are already seeing its troubling effects.

The acidification has already been measured, and if the increasing CO2 trend continues it would come to pose a serious extinction threat to major classes of marine organisms, including corals.

In other words: Proposed strategies to alter the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth's surface by (for example) deliberately injecting millions of tons of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere pose enormous risks and uncertainties and don «t address the underlying causes of global warming or other major risks from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide, such as ocean acidification.

Notably, in the face of the sustained, severe threat to marine life posed by ocean acidification, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), regards proposals to mitigate ocean acidification directly as a «threat» to biodiversity.

Climate change poses risks to human health through shifting weather patterns, increases in the frequency and intensity of heat waves and other extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification, among other environmental effects.

Injecting these chemicals into the atmosphere would not also remove carbon, which can persist for a very long time and pose other consequences such as the acidification of the oceans.