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Acidification due to climate change - impacts for oceans and coral reefs
Click here, or on the graphic, for full resolution. Acidification due to climate change - impacts for oceans and coral reefs. As carbon concentrations in the atmosphere increase from land use changes and emissions from fossil fuels - so do concentrations in the ocean, with resultant acidification as a natural chemical process. The skeletons of coldwater coral reefs may dissolve, perhaps already within a few decades. The impacts will be greatest at high latitudes. This will have an impact on all marine organisms with calcerous shells and body parts, in addition to coral reefs this includes shellfish and plankton.
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