Nature World News: The discovery of dramatic yet natural short-term increases in a North Carolina estuary's acidity is bad news for the fragile ecosystem and others like it, all of which are already facing long-term ocean acidification due to climate change.
Writing in the journal PLOS One, researchers from Duke University explain how, by measuring the acidity of a North Carolina inlet every week for a year, they were able to identify a range of natural factors contributing to temporary spikes in acidity. These...