a news stream provided by the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Center (OA-ICC)
The on-going rise of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is not only changing our climate; it is also changing our oceans. More than a quarter of the CO2 released to the air by human activities is absorbed by the world’s oceans.
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NIWA. Resource.
Human additions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere are creating a cascade of chemical consequences that will eventually extend to the bottom of all the world’s oceans.
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ACS Publications: Environmental Science and Technology, 1 April 2014. Resource.
A successful integrated ocean acidification (OA) observing network must include (1) scientists and technicians from a range of disciplines from physics to chemistry to biology to technology development; (2) government, private, and intergovernmental support; (3) regional cohorts working together on regionally specific issues; …
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Frontiers, 1 June 2019. Resource.
Fundamental changes to marine chemistry are occurring because of increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Ocean acidity (H+ concentration) and bicarbonate ion concentrations are increasing, whereas carbonate ion concentrations are decreasing. There has already been an average pH decrease of 0.1 in the upper ocean, and continued unconstrained carbon emissions would further reduce average upper ocean pH by approximately 0.3 by 2100.
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The Royal Society Publishing: Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society A – Matematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 1 September 2012. Resource.
Durante los Ultimos 200 años aproximadamente, la quema generalizada de combustibles fúsiles, la deforestación y la producción de cemento han liberado más de 500 mil millones de toneladas métricas de dióxido de carbono (CO2 ) a la atmósfera de las cuales aproximadamente la mitad en los últimos 30 años. Esta liberación masiva de carbono previamente ‘almacenado’ incrementa el efecto invernadero natural y pone en peligro la futura estabilidad del clima de la Tierra…
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IUCN, 1 December 2017. Resource.
…As research on the topic expands at an exponential rate, a comprehensive understanding of the variability in organisms’ responses and corresponding levels of certainty is necessary to forecast the ecological effects. Here, we perform the most comprehensive meta-analysis to date by synthesizing the results of 228 studies examining biological responses to ocean acidification…
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Wiley, 1 February 2013. Resource.
General article explaining ocean acidification.
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Wikipedia, 1 March 2021. Resource.
This Oceanography issue has special features on ocean acidification
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Oceanography Society, 1 December 2009. Resource.
This page contains an educatinal material on ocean acidification
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NOAA, 1 April 2020. Resource.
Oceans have absorbed approximately 30% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, causing a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. With surface ocean pH changing at a rapid pace, continued uptake of CO2 is expected to decrease ocean pH by 0.3 pH units as early as 2081…
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Global Change Biology, 1 January 2021. Resource.
