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Climbing CO2 Hurting Marine Life From Oysters to Coral

2013-08-25 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Climbing levels of carbon dioxide are harming all forms of marine life as the gas dissolves in the oceans, making them more acidic, German researchers say. Mollusks, corals and echinoderms, a class of creatures that includes starfish and sea urchins, are the worst affected by the uptake of CO2 by the seas, according to a study in the journal Nature Climate Change by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven. The gas forms carbonic acid when it dissolves in the oceans, lowering...

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