Study finds increased ocean acidification due to human activities

Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 17:41 in Earth & Climate

Oceanographers from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution report that the northeast Pacific Ocean has absorbed an increasing amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide over the last decade, at a rate that mirrors the increase of carbon dioxide emissions pumped into the atmosphere. The scientists, led by graduate student Sophie Chu, in MIT’s Department of Earth, […]

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