The world's top marine scientists are meeting this week in Australia to discuss what many are calling the greatest threat so far to the survival of our oceans - acidification. It s a problem that s ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

Shellfish farmers face a growing crisis due to ocean acidification. How it affects oyster farming and what future consumers ...

Eighteen years ago, farmed oyster larvae began disappearing in mass die-offs, mystifying hatchery managers in the Pacific Northwest and threatening a thriving part of the region’s economy. Up to 90%of ...

Libby Jewett founded the U.S. ocean acidification program and had begun work on offshore wind energy. But she joined the past ...

New research from China suggests that oysters can be good at removing carbon dioxide from oceans, making the bivalves both an important food source and a potential tool in the fight against climate ...

The ocean is the lifeblood of our planet—producing over half of the world’s oxygen, regulating global temperatures, and supporting millions of species. Yet today, marine ecosystems are under severe ...

The list of marine creatures whose exoskeletons are made of calcium carbonate is long. Crabs, shrimps, lobsters, shellfish, ...