Rapidly acidifying waters pose major threat for Southern Ocean ecosystem
Monday, November 2, 2015 - 15:31
in Earth & Climate
A new study uses a number of Earth System Models to explore how the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide and the resulting ocean acidification will affect the Southern Ocean over the next century. The new research finds that for some organisms the onset of such critical conditions will be so abrupt, and the duration of events so long, that adaption may become impossible.