When most people hear the phrase "ocean acidification," they think of coral reefs, shellfish or declining fisheries. Those ...

An ongoing research project exploring the effects of rising levels of oceanic CO2 on squid neurology reveals that exposure to ...

Streams are abruptly acidifying and turning orange or milky-white across vast regions of North America’s northwest. This is caused by permafrost thaw — an outcome of a warming climate that has ...

When squid are exposed to water with high levels of carbon dioxide, their brains shrink, the Society for Experimental Biology ...

“The signs of the ocean in distress are all around us”, said Peter Thomson, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Ocean, at the conference in Nice, France last week.

Liz is a marine biologist, environmental regulation specialist, and science writer. She has previously studied Antarctic fish, seaweed, and marine coastal ecology. Ocean acidification, or OA, is the ...

Severe oxygen drops in the water can leave trails of fish kills in their wakes, but scientists thought adult fish would be more resilient to the second major threat in coastal waters: acidification. A ...