Carbon dioxide emissions from human activities are acidifying the oceans and threaten a mass extinction of sea life, warns Dr Carol Turley from Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Though it is impossible to know how marine life will cope, she fears many species will not survive. Since the Industrial Revolution, CO2 emissions have already turned the sea about 30% more acidic. It is more acidic now than it has been for at least 500,000 years.
Warning signs like this increasingly point to a single solution: We must stop consuming the planet now.
Plymouth Marine Laboratory here.
Rising CO2, Ocean Acidification, and Their Impacts on Marine Microbes here.
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