In a new review, scientists warn that this rapidly escalating, human-driven crisis threatens to upend the biosphere. The ...

When most people hear the phrase "ocean acidification," they think of coral reefs, shellfish or declining fisheries. Those ...

A new review in Limnology and Oceanography led by scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography warns that ...

A research team from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) has published a study in Communications Biology showing how ocean acidification and warming—two of the main consequences of global ...

“The signs of the ocean in distress are all around us”, said Peter Thomson, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Ocean, at the conference in Nice, France last week.

PORTLAND, Maine — Sharks are the most feared predators in the sea, and their survival hinges on fearsome teeth that regrow throughout their lives. But changes in the ocean's chemistry could put those ...

Scientists conducted an ocean alkalinity enhancement experiment in the Gulf of Maine. Diluted lye was released to increase ...

But ocean acidification, an often overlooked effect of man-made climate change, could change that fact within decades, according to an ongoing scientific study. Garett Allen, an assistant professor at ...

The oceans have absorbed a significant portion of all anthropogenic (CO 2) emissions (approximately a third of the CO 2 emitted from fossil fuel emissions, cement production and deforestation; Sabine ...