Ocean acidification shown to have negative impact on fish skeletons
Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 07:40
in Earth & Climate
For more than a century, the world's oceans have been becoming steadily more acidic as they soak up ever-increasing amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and the impacts can be fatal for invertebrates such as shellfish, plankton, and corals that rely on dissolved minerals to build their shells and exoskeletons.