Trouble dead ahead: Acidifying oceans harm tropical corals
June 14, 2024
June 14, 2024
WASHINGTON, June 14 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release:
The French Polynesian island Moorea is the most beautiful isle in the world, some say. Its lagoons are surrounded by reefs dominated by Porites corals.
These corals and other calcifying marine species are the world's primary reef-builders. Therein lies the trouble. The seas in which they dwell are turning acidic, a result of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Marine . . .
The French Polynesian island Moorea is the most beautiful isle in the world, some say. Its lagoons are surrounded by reefs dominated by Porites corals.
These corals and other calcifying marine species are the world's primary reef-builders. Therein lies the trouble. The seas in which they dwell are turning acidic, a result of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Marine . . .