«Before, scientists tended to ignore this big chunk of the ecosystem when
thinking of ocean chemistry.
Not exact matches
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.
It is also
thought that hydrothermal vents may regulate the
chemistry of the global
oceans and could be responsible for the elemental composition
of seawater as a whole.
«The conventional wisdom has been to
think of vulnerability to
ocean acidification only in terms
of ocean chemistry.