Great educational series by Seattle Times: SEA CHANGE (about ocean acidification and its effects on sealife) Try to read through this long article to appreciate the problem. There are other articles in the series the URLs to which I will also post. "Acidification wasn’t supposed to start doing its damage until much later this century. Instead, changing sea chemistry already has killed billions of oysters along the Washington coast and at a hatchery that draws water from Hood Canal. It’s helping destroy mussels on some Northwest shores. It is a suspect in the softening of clam shells and in the death of baby scallops. It is dissolving a tiny plankton species eaten by many ocean creatures, from auklets and puffins to fish and whales — and that had not been expected for another 25 years."
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:11:52 +0000
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