Understanding ocean acidification

Bonnie Laverock of Plymouth Marine Laboratory checks her experiment on the European mussel's reaction to increased seawater acidity

Global warming is here to stay and there is no shortage of scientific evidence to show increased carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is to blame, reports Bryan Gibson. Whether or not humanity is entirely responsible, the potentially catastrophic effects of over production of anthropomorphic CO2 can only be minimised and not totally overcome. We […]