Sentences with phrase «increasing acidification»

Whether they could survive both a sustained rise in temperatures and the increasing acidification of the oceans that goes with higher carbon dioxide levels is another matter.

The increasing acidification of the oceans is another line of evidence indicating the overloading of the atmosphere with CO2, evidence independent of any computer modeling.

More recently we were told that increasing acidification due to global warming was a serious problem.

He cites «the increasing acidification of the oceans,» which «is simple to measure and undeniably, chemically linked to carbon concentrations in the atmosphere.

On her diving trips she experiences the direct impacts of global warming and increasing acidification on coral reefs and fragile underwater ecosystems.

Warmer ocean temperatures combined with increasing acidification is particularly damaging to much sea - life, including corals.

In Northeast Land and Svalbard, the melting waters on the ice caps are the tears of the Earth mourning the future death of men and civilizations as the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere spikes and global warming proceeds rapidly, killing millions of marine organisms, and increasing the acidification of the oceans.

Most of the gas is just absorbed by the water column, increasing acidification in the region and contributing to anoxia.

«There had already been publications and reports on the increasing acidification — technically, decreasing alkalinity since seawater is has an average pH of more than 8.0, and the predicted drop in pH will not take seawater below the neutral pH of 7.

When you suggested in an reply to a comment of mine in an older post that the planet was resilient and also mentioned the coral reefs, I thought it useless to reply in rebuttal, because the science so clearly already showed that persistent high water temperatures and the increasing acidification of ocean waters were highly likely to do away with coral reefs during our lifetime.

His question now is whether and to what extent do Atlantic and Polar cod compete with each other and to what extent an increasing acidification of the ocean influences any rivalry.

«This study shows that the increasing acidification of the oceans has the potential to reduce larval survival in marine fish.

An international research group led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has now found evidence for potentially harmful effects the increasing acidification of the oceans may have on larvae of commercially important fish species such as cod.

We are pioneering this data fusion approach so that we can observe large areas of Earth's oceans, allowing us to quickly and easily identify those areas most at risk from increasing acidification,» says Jamie Shutler from the University of Exeter, who is leading the research.

It results from the changes in the coral reef community due to increasing acidification.

She is exposing them to increased acidification levels, returning them to ambient conditions, and then re-exposing them to higher acidification conditions to see if they have a «memory» of those conditions and are less sensitive to it.

Coral reefs and associated species, already stressed with current conditions [40], would be decimated by increased acidification, temperature and sea level rise.

I have reviewed the IPCC and more recent scientific literature and believe that there is not a problem with increased acidification, even up to the unlikely levels in the most - used IPCC scenarios.

In a year in which global warming dominated much of the conversation, it was hard to miss all the stories describing the mass coral die - offs, increased acidification, proliferating dead zones and sea level rises.

Not exact matches

Increased ocean acidification caused by the absorption of carbon dioxide causes bleaching, too.

The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.

Ocean acidification, which is a direct consequence of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, is expected to have a deleterious effect on many marine species over the next century.

Once the fish had reached the age at which they would normally swim to the open ocean, the researchers transferred the fish into saltwater tanks that had either the same or increased levels of CO2 - induced acidification.

Scientists have been warning that decreasing amounts of available oxygen will increase stress on a range of species, even as they also face the effects of rising temperatures and ocean acidification.

Scientists say reserves can help marine ecosystems and people adapt to five key impacts of climate change: ocean acidification; sea - level rise; increased intensity of storms; shifts in species distribution, and decreased productivity and oxygen availability.

Federal protection could slow the destruction of coral reefs, which are devastated by increasing water temperatures and the rise of ocean acidification

Writing in Science, the researchers predict that with increasing levels of acidification, most coral reefs will be gradually dissolving away by the end of the century.

Unpublished work by Gates, led by the University of Hawaii's Hollie Putnam, shows that adult cauliflower corals (Pocillopora damicornis) exposed to stress during brooding produce larvae with increased resilience to heat and ocean acidification.

This balance is threatened by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, which causes ocean acidification (decreasing ocean pH).

Some crustaceans have been observed with increased amounts of calcification in their exoskeletons in response to ocean acidification, Taylor said.

«This work will help increase our understanding of climate change, carbon cycling, and ocean acidification in the Arctic, particularly as it affects marine and fishery science and technology,» added Chen.

«The Arctic Ocean is the first ocean where we see such a rapid and large - scale increase in acidification, at least twice as fast as that observed in the Pacific or Atlantic oceans,» said Cai, the U.S. lead principal investigator on the project and Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at UD.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

The authors said the study underlines the increasing vulnerability of calcified animals to ocean acidification, which occurs as the ocean absorbs more atmospheric carbon emitted through the burning of fossil fuels.

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.

As the oceans absorb increasing amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, ocean acidification is expected to make life harder for many marine organisms, especially shellfish and other animals with shells or skeletons made of calcium carbonate.

Changes in pH levels can have massive effects on marine life, a fact that has led many scientists to believe that most species can't withstand large increases in acidification.

Ocean acidification is further increasing the acidity of that deep water.

«A lethal combination of increased occurrence and severity of bleaching, along with ocean acidification, will mean that already severely damaged reefs will undergo a catastrophic decline in the next 40 years,» warns Rogers.

«Furthermore, model projections suggest that over the coming decades that South Georgia will experience increased stress from ocean - wide acidification.»

But the urchin species currently harvested off the California coast are vulnerable to increased water temperatures and ocean acidification.

«Given how widespread low - oxygen zones are in coastal waters worldwide, understanding these processes will allow us to predict the acidification of estuaries under expected increases in carbon dioxide and ongoing mitigation of nutrient inputs by management actions,» said Jeremy Testa, assistant professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

There is, therefore, much current interest in how coccolithophore calcification might be affected by climate change and ocean acidification, both of which occur as atmospheric carbon dioxide increases.

Focusing on reef - building corals and other shelled creatures that are threatened by increasing temperatures and ocean acidification, she is testing them to determine how species may acclimatize to the new circumstances.

Such erosion could dump carbon molecules into the water that increase ocean acidification and affect sea life.

In the oceans, increased CO2 is causing acidification of water.

«The ability to adapt to changing conditions is going to become even more important as humans impact the environment, whether it's from ocean acidification or increasing temperatures or other types of global changes that are occurring.»

In a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, the researchers report that increased ocean acidification by 2100 will spur a range of responses in phytoplankton: Some species will die out, while others will flourish, changing the balance of plankton species around the world.

Now a team of researchers from MIT, the University of Alabama, and elsewhere has found that such increased ocean acidification will dramatically affect global populations of phytoplankton — microorganisms on the ocean surface that make up the base of the marine food chain.

Without alternatives to fossil fuel, we are committed to steadily increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the oceans, with the attendant deleterious effects on greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and ocean acidification.