Global ocean acidification monitoring network to launch at Rio summit

Washington Post: Efforts to deal with increasing acidification of the oceans will get a signal of support Sunday with a U.S. announcement that it will provide $1 million over the next three years to launch a global monitoring network. The creation of the International Coordinating Office for Ocean Acidification, which will be housed within the International Atomic Energy Agency's Environment Laboratories in Monaco, marks the first worldwide effort to track how increasing carbon emissions are making the world's...

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