Sentences with phrase «slowing of acidification»

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Examples include cleaning up floating plastic debris, slowing down the pace of ocean acidification, and gathering far more data about the habitat impact of illegal overfishing.

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

But, noted Nancy Knowlton of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., «If we do want to have reefs around by 2050, we are going to have to do something about carbon dioxide» to slow global warming and acidification.

Ocean acidification expected to accompany climate change may slow development and reduce survival of the larval stages of Dungeness crab, a key component of the Northwest marine ecosystem and the largest fishery by revenue on the West Coast, a new study has found.

After running the global simulation several times with different combinations of responses for the 96 species, the researchers observed that as ocean acidification prompted some species to grow faster, and others slower, it also changed the natural competition between species.

Researchers in Monaco and Australia have solved a key part of the mystery surrounding why ocean acidification slows down the growth of reef - building corals.

«There have been a lot of studies showing that under ocean acidification scenarios that corals and other organisms on the reef calcify at a slower rate,» Kline says.

Linkages between the buildup of atmospheric CO2 from burning fossil fuels and the slowing of coral calcification due to ocean acidification.

If we go back to the coral reefs, even if I said ocean acidification will progress slower in the tropics, the combination of ocean acidification and warm temperature is a deadly recipe for corals.

Given the slow rate of temperature changes for large bodies of water and the tiny hypothetical effect of a cooler sun, I doubt that rates of ocean acidification would be affected much, but there would be some effect.

Indirect benefits such as slowing of ocean acidification and incidental reduction in co-pollutants were omitted from the analysis; therefore, the benefit estimates are quite conservative.

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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.

In the first, Woods Hole Oceanographic researchers Justin Ries et al. found that crabs, shrimp and lobsters build more shell when exposed to acidification and that hard clams and corals slowed formation of shells at very high CO2 levels, while soft clams and oysters did so at lower levels.

In light of such uncertainty, Eyre said, the best course of action is to continue working to slow ocean acidification, and climate change generally, before its effects grow too much worse.

«If we don't do something» about slowing the impact of climate change, he said, «we give up any ability to stave off ocean acidification and sea level rise.»

New findings from fieldwork undertaken at the University of Sydney's One Tree Island Research Station provide evidence ocean acidification resulting from carbon dioxide emissions is already slowing coral reef growth.

If you want to help slow climate change and ocean acidification and reduce the number of illnesses and deaths due to air pollution you could do several things, including:

If we increase the amount of wind power we will slow down the climate change and ocean acidification that otherwise will greatly damage the world that our children and grandchildren inherit.

Ocean uptake of CO2 slows the rate of anthropogenic climate change but comes at the cost of ocean acidification.

And with no sign of CO2 emissions slowing down, ocean acidification will likely keep increasing in the decades to come.

Of course, if the aforementioned scenario isn't enough, you can also reference the effects of slowing thermohaline circulation (such as the gulf stream) and acidification, which Coby already mentioneOf course, if the aforementioned scenario isn't enough, you can also reference the effects of slowing thermohaline circulation (such as the gulf stream) and acidification, which Coby already mentioneof slowing thermohaline circulation (such as the gulf stream) and acidification, which Coby already mentioned.

Clearly, a first priority will be drastically reducing GHG emissions to slow the onset of acidification; a more comprehensive set of laws aimed at curbing overfishing, pollution and resource extraction (amongst other human activities) will need to be implemented in a way to ensure that local and regional authorities are sufficiently empowered to act.

If the proposed Crystal Brook Energy Park is built it will result in a reduction of around six hundred thousand tonnes of greenhouse carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere each year, slowing climate change and reducing the damaging acidification of our oceans.

AUSTIN, Texas — New research maps the growing impact of ocean acidification and identifies the regions worst affected, while scientists and world governments are collaborating more and sharing ways to slow or reverse its progress.