Reports and Newsletters
Non-peer reviewed reports on ocean acidification, newsletters from ocean acidification focused organizations, and related announcements
Policy brief: Deep ocean climate intervention impacts – ocean alkalinity enhancement
The Concept: The ocean contains 50 times as much carbon as the atmosphere and acts as a natural thermostat. Based on natural weathering that occurs...
The physical ocean – current issue
To kick off the new year, we are exploring the world of Oceanography. In this Spring issue, the Physical Ocean, we uncover new insights into...
Contributions of regional seas conventions and action plans to a healthy ocean
The report, Contributions of Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans to a Healthy Ocean, draws on a series of case studies that examine the cumulative impact...
The UN’s latest climate change report is clear: we must act fact to avoid catastrophic impacts
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations’ chief climate science body, confirms that we...
The effects of elevated temperature and acidification on the biodiversity of coral reef cryptobenthic communities that recruited Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures placed within mesocosms at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology between July 2016 and June 2018
The data described here includes cytochrome oxidase I (COI) DNA metabarcoding data collected from modified Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures deployed in mesocosms at the Hawaii...
Arctic report card 2021: rapid and pronounced warming continues to drive the evolution of the Arctic environment
About Arctic Report Card 2021 The Arctic Report Card (hereafter 'ARC') has been issued annually since 2006. It is a timely and peer-reviewed source for...
SWINGS Cruise report MD229- N/O Marion-Dufresne- Jan 11th -March 8th 2021
Introduction and objectives SWINGS is a multidisciplinary 4-year project dedicated to elucidate trace element sources, transformations and sinks along a section crossing key areas of...
IAEA brief: nuclear and isotopic techniques help assess ocean acidification and climate change impacts
The factors that determine climate are complex. Oceans store about one quarter of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted through human activities, and play an important...
State of global climate in 2021 – WMO provisional report
Geneva, 31 October 2021 (WMO) - Record atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and associated accumulated heat have propelled the planet into uncharted territory, with far-reaching repercussions...
New report shows ocean acidification (OA) in Puget Sound waters continues as our understanding of patterns grows
New Report Released: Automated buoys and volunteers helped gather critical Puget Sound data during pandemic On October 27, the Puget Sound Marine Waters Work Group of the...
Climate-smart decisions in our changing world
NOAA delivers the science, data, services and solutions that help the world address the climate crisis. An integral part of the Department of Commerce, NOAA...
Ocean acidification in Africa
A major food fish in African coastal communities, parrotfish such as these rely on healthy coral reefs that could disappear in an acidifying ocean. Ocean...
State of Hawai‘i ocean acidification action plan 2021 -2031
The State of Hawaiʻi Ocean Acidification Action Plan was developed by the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) with...
Ocean acidification (OA) in the Baltic Sea from a Swedish perspective
BackgroundThis report is produced as part of the project “Baltic Sea Acidification Mitigation” (BALSAM), supported by the Swedish Institute. The aim of this report and...
Ocean State Report 5
ABOUT THE OCEAN STATE REPORT The Ocean State Report is an annual publication of the Copernicus Marine Service and Mercator Ocean International [3] providing a comprehensive, state-of-the-art...
New report shows impacts of climate change and extreme weather in Latin America and Caribbean (text & video)
Climate change and extreme weather are threatening human health and safety, food, water and energy security and the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean....
AR6 Climate change 2021: the physical science basis
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together...
Global warming ‘unequivocally’ human driven, at unprecedented rate: IPCC
A wildfire burns in a national park in Oregon, USA. Unsplash/Marcus Kauffman Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible,...
Key climate change effects on the coastal and marine environment around the Pacific UK Overseas Territories
• Climate-driven changes in the central south Pacific Ocean will cause widespread warming of ocean waters, altered circulation, increased stratification of the water column and...
Indicator assessment: ocean acidification
Currently, the ocean takes up about one quarter of global CO2 emissions from human activities. The uptake of CO2 in the sea causes ocean acidification,...
JPI Strategy
Developed with JPI Oceans members and co-created with stakeholders, the Strategy Framework launched online on Monday 29 March, provides a coherent setting for the coming...
Summary for policymakers
Ocean acidification research is growing rapidly. The Third Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World (Monterey, California, September 2012) convened 540 experts from 37...
New report highlights why the ocean matters in climate negotiations & suggests positive actions nations can take as the countdown to COP26 is underway
Leading UK experts shine a spotlight on the critical role the ocean plays in greatly slowing the rate of climate change but also the subsequent...
Measuring coastal acidification using in situ sensors in the National Estuary Program
Estuaries and coastal areas are highly vulnerable to the impacts of acidification on shellfish, coral reefs, fisheries, and the commercial and recreational industries that they...
Plastic and toxic chemical induced ocean acidification will cause a plankton crisis that will devastate humanity over the next 25 Years, unless we act now to stop the pollution
Planktonic plants and animals at the base of the marine food chain make all life on Earth possible. Without them the atmosphere would be toxic...
