Sentences with phrase «altering ocean chemistry»

• Rising acidity: Rising levels of CO2 in the oceans are altering ocean chemistry and increasing the acidity of ocean water, reducing the saturation level of aragonite, a compound corals need to build their skeletons.

The warmer ocean surface temperatures impact corals and alter coral reef communities by prompting coral bleaching events and altering ocean chemistry.

Pollution from fossil fuels is altering ocean chemistry and threatening marine life and whole ecosystems.

We have enough problems with over fishing, mercury contamination, nitrates, and plastics without climate change altering ocean chemistry as well.

Alter the ocean chemistry just a bit, however, and a greater proportion of the shells do not develop normally.

Yet because ship emissions are not intended to alter ocean chemistry, they do not violate the moratorium, says Jim Thomas of the ETC Group, a think tank that consults for the CBD.

CO2 emissions cause ocean acidification, threaten sea life CO2 emissions cause ocean acidification, threaten sea life mongabay.com September 21, 2007 Human - induced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could alter ocean chemistry to...

Some experts even say we could put it in the ocean (but that seems a bigger risk, given the altered ocean chemistry).

Not exact matches

Does ocean chemistry alter climate?

By engineering breaking waves of natural ocean water under purified air in the lab, they were able to isolate and analyze aerosols from the spray and determine how life within the water altered the chemistry of the particles.

Rising ocean temperatures around Alaska alters the chemistry of ocean water.

Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere not only alters the ocean's chemistry, it's increasing the temperature of the atmosphere and warming waters, too.

«It's a more complicated picture, but broadly it means that there are going to be winners and losers in the oceans as its chemistry is modified by human activities — this could have the effect of altering major ocean ecosystems on which both we and a large part of marine life depend.»

Increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide could also significantly alter ocean temperatures and chemistry over the next century, which could lead to increased and more severe mass bleaching and other stressors on coral reefs.

As the film shows, rising temperatures are leading to habitat loss and the deaths of thousands of species across the world, while changing ocean chemistry is killing off coral and phytoplankton, fundamentally altering the marine ecosystem.

The most indirect impact of all is coming through the global buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which are altering the climate and ocean chemistry with long - lasting repercussions.

On CO2 as a fertilizer, in the oceans CO2 is acting as a pollutant and is altering the chemistry (the ph) and the emerging data shows a harmful effect on organisms.

Climate change, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, excess nutrient inputs, and pollution in its many forms are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the ocean, often on a global scale and, in some cases, at rates greatly exceeding those in the historical and recent geological record.

Twenty years of accumulating research has shown that we have altered the composition of the atmosphere in ways that could have centuries - long impacts on climate patterns, coastlines and ocean chemistry.

I was reminded that what frightens me most about climate change — which will by itself cook forests, kill thousands of species, and alter the chemistry of the oceans — are the famines, mass migrations, and wars that could follow.

Current and projected increases in Alaska's ocean temperatures and changes in ocean chemistry are expected to alter the distribution and productivity of Alaska's marine fisheries, which lead the U.S. in commercial value.

Scientists investigating melting glaciers have discovered evidence of a previously unknown vicious circle, whereby melted glacial water alters the chemistry on the surface of the ocean and drives further glacial melting, in turn accelerating the rise of seal levels.

This change in seawater chemistry alters the way sound moves through the ocean, allowing it to propagate farther, particularly for sounds two and a half octaves above «middle C,» said researcher Keith Hester of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California.

Carbonic acid is altering the chemistry of the ocean, making it difficult for some plants and animals to live how they live and do what they do.