TL;DR: A new report on planetary boundaries indicates that we are nearing a dangerous threshold that could render Earth's environment unsustainable for human life. Ocean waters are rapidly decreasing ...

An unhealthy sea butterfly, or pteropod, showing effects of ocean acidification including ragged, dissolving shell ridges on upper surface, a cloudy shell in lower right quadrant, and severe abrasions ...

The acidification of the Earth's oceans is expected to triple by 2100, and could lead to major impacts on biodiversity across U.S. coastlines. With climbing atmospheric CO2, huge amounts of this gas ...

A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks' teeth and found that future generations of ...

Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) have for the first time shown that increased acidification of ...

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Another boundary to protect our planet from further harm appears to have been breached by humans. The planetary boundary in question is ocean acidification, according to Live Science. New findings ...

The world’s oceans, once thought vast and indestructible, are now showing alarming signs of decline. Recent research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research reveals that Earth has ...

How will the climate crisis affect one of the ocean’s fiercest predators? New research published Wednesday has examined what might happen to sharks’ highly specialized, flesh-cutting teeth. As carbon ...