Arctic Ocean rapidly becoming corrosive: new research
Source: Nunatsiaq News
Acidification of the Arctic Ocean is occurring faster than projected according to new findings published in the journal Plos One.
The new research shows that acidification in surface waters of the Arctic Ocean is rapidly expanding into areas that were previously isolated from contact with the air because they were covered with ice.
“A remarkable 20 per cent of the Canadian Basin has become more corrosive to carbonate minerals (used by sea life, like shrimp, to build their shells) in an unprecedented short period of time. Nowhere on Earth have we documented such large scale, rapid ocean acidification,” said the lead researcher and ocean acidification project chief, United States Geological Survey oceanographer Lisa Robbins.
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