In Monaco, scientists at the IAEA Marine Environment Laboratories (IAEA-MEL) have joined more than 150 experts from 26 countries calling for urgent actions to halt rising levels of acidity in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ocean acidity is one of the key markers of Earth's health, because if it tips too far towards acidic then the results can be ...

The Earth’s ecosystem is a finely balanced thing. Everything relies on the health of everything else, and we’re quickly throwing that balance out of whack. One of the most important indicators of the ...

By María Paula Rubiano A. Between 2014 and 2015, a marine heatwave known as “The Blob” warmed an area of the Pacific Ocean ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The deep oceans have crossed a crucial boundary that threatens their ability to provide the surface with food and oxygen, a new ...

The Gulf of Maine—home to commercial fisheries for oysters, clams and mussels—has unexpectedly avoided an increase in seawater acidity, helping to preserve the health of its fisheries. The Gulf's ...

An unhealthy sea butterfly, or pteropod, showing effects of ocean acidification including ragged, dissolving shell ridges on upper surface, a cloudy shell in lower right quadrant, and severe abrasions ...

Orange cup corals, pictured growing on rocks above, are native to the Pacific Ocean. As they grow, the corals incorporate minerals from seawater, leaving a valuable historical record in their ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth's habitability, based in part on ocean acidity. The new ...

The deep oceans have crossed a crucial boundary that threatens their ability to provide the surface with food and oxygen, a new study finds. Nearly two-thirds of the ocean below 200 meters, or 656 ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test — a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth’s habitability, based in part on ocean acidity. The new ...