By Elizabeth Fitt In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research ...

According to a new study, ocean acidification planetary boundary, endangering marine life and coastal economies.

The world's oceans are in trouble. Every day, 22 million tons of carbon dioxide from factories, cars, power plants and other human sources are absorbed by the world's oceans. The result? A frightening ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Ocean acidification is the chemical process that is set into ...

For generations, the people of Fiji have built their lives around the country's rich coral reef ecosystems. The ocean provides sustenance, while the dazzling marine life brings tourists from around ...

An international research team develops a rubric for governments and policymaking bodies to evaluate preparedness for ocean acidification. In a paper published today in the journal Environmental ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Dungeness crabs hunt by ...

For the first time researchers have examined on a global scale how calcified algae in their natural habitat react to increasing acidification due to higher marine uptake of carbon dioxide. For the ...

Climate change threatens coral reef fishes in myriad ways, but maybe not in all the ways we thought. Some studies have suggested that ocean acidification, one consequence of climate change, might warp ...

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 ...

Sam Dupont and Hans Pörtner call for experiments of greater complexity that can probe how plummeting pH will affect marine ecosystems as the climate warms. Oceans are becoming more acidic as they draw ...