Anchorage Daily news: Basic chemistry proves that ocean waters are becoming more corrosive and it is happening faster in colder waters. The acidity, caused by increasing carbon dioxide emissions, can prevent shells from forming on crabs or oysters and tiny shrimplike organisms essential to fish diets. Alaska's monitoring project will allow scientists to develop a "sensitivity index" for the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea and the Arctic and key species in the regions. "By doing that we will get an idea of which regions...
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