Canadian Press: Ocean acidification - one of the consequences of an increasing level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - makes rockfish anxious, according to a newly published paper by a neuroscientist at Edmonton's MacEwan University.
"It's actually very similar to a human being anxious at a very basic fundamental level," said Trevor Hamilton. "[The fish are] afraid of any sort of stimuli that could be harmful."
Prof. Hamilton and his colleague, biologist Adam Holcombe, were building on previous research...