<\/a>The world's oceans are turning acidic due to the buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, and scientists say the effects on marine life will be catastrophic.<\/p>\r\n\u201cIncreasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may make Earth's oceans more acidic faster than previously thought\u2014unbalancing ecosystems in the process. New study says: Helen Scales for National Geographic News\u201d\r\n\r\nFor tens of millions of years, Earth's oceans have maintained a relatively stable acidity level<\/a>. It's within this steady environment that the rich and varied web of life in today's seas has arisen and flourished. But research shows that this ancient balance is being undone by a recent and rapid drop in surface pH that could have devastating global consequences. Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The world’s oceans are turning acidic due to the buildup of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, and scientists say the effects on marine life will be catastrophic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncreasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may make Earth’s oceans more acidic faster than previously thought\u2014unbalancing ecosystems in the process. New study says: Helen Scales for National Geographic News\u201d<\/p>\n

For tens of millions of years, Earth’s oceans have maintained a relatively stable acidity level<\/a>. It’s within this steady environment that the rich and varied web of life in today’s seas has arisen and flourished. But research shows that this ancient balance is being undone by a recent and rapid drop in surface pH that could have devastating global consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[458],"tags":[460,461,467,468,253,464,466,646,471,318,179,470,319,469,459,465,472,463,462],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greendustriesblog.com\/greendustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}