MAYOTTE, INDIAN OCEAN - NOVEMBER 2017: Diver from the Mayotte Marine Natural Park carry out a survey on the reef, called REEFCHECK, on November 27, 2017, Mayotte, Comoros archipelago, Indian Ocean.

In 2025, scientists warned the ‘planetary boundary’ for ocean acidification had been crossed. This is what that means and why ...

Another boundary to protect our planet from further harm appears to have been breached by humans. The planetary boundary in question is ocean acidification, according to Live Science. New findings ...

Ocean acidification is sinking into marine regions as deep as 1500 metres, posing new threats to organisms like sea butterflies, sea snails and cold-water corals. The ocean is the largest natural sink ...

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

An unhealthy sea butterfly, or pteropod, showing effects of ocean acidification including ragged, dissolving shell ridges on upper surface, a cloudy shell in lower right quadrant, and severe abrasions ...

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TL;DR: A new report on planetary boundaries indicates that we are nearing a dangerous threshold that could render Earth's environment unsustainable for human life. Ocean waters are rapidly decreasing ...

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

Human activity recently sent the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere beyond 400 ppm for the first time in more than 4 million years. This threshold may be a point-of-no-return with dire ...

The world's oceans are in trouble. Every day, 22 million tons of carbon dioxide from factories, cars, power plants and other human sources are absorbed by the world's oceans. The result? A frightening ...