Tag: calcium carbonate
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The Seafloor Is Dissolving Because of Climate Change
Carbon emissions are acidifying the ocean so quickly that the seafloor is disintegrating. According to a new study, ocean acidification is setting off a dangerous feedback loop that’s dissolving the very bottom of the ocean. According to a study published this week in PNAS, this sets off a feedback loop that acidifies the ocean even…
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Scientists Race To Help Hawaii Corals Survive
Her time in the underwater wasteland has gotten easier these days for coral research diver Lindsey Kramer. Stationed in Kailua-Kona — ground zero for the worst recorded coral bleaching in state history in 2014 to 2016 — Kramer wept when she first witnessed the trails of telltale mucus drifting from pillared colonies that were 500…