Ocean acidification is often described as the evil twin of climate change. Prof Richard Twitchett explains ... Ocean acidification can affect any animal that has a calcium carbonate exoskeleton or ...

Ocean acidification can negatively affect marine life, causing organisms' shells and skeletons made from calcium carbonate to dissolve ... these tiny organisms important in the fight against climate ...

Ocean ecosystems play a critical ... Some plankton combine calcium and dissolved carbonates to form a calcium carbonate protective coating like the shells and other body parts of coral, clams ...

A research team has shown that methanogens, micro-organisms ubiquitous in low-oxygen environments like aquifers, soil and even permafrost, can propel their growth by dissolving calcium carbonate ...

These weather patterns demonstrate how interconnected the ocean and climate systems are ... Organisms with calcium carbonate shells or skeletons, such as corals and some shellfish, are ...

Coral reefs are the ultimate underwater architects, working in tandem with tiny algae to shape their colorful calcium carbonate ... connection between the ocean and climate and related ...

The ocean water in the Pacific Northwest is more vulnerable to rapid acidification, where the carbon dioxide levels are naturally higher.