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

Scientists are looking for solutions to remove greenhouse gases trapped in our atmosphere, and one idea may lie in the wetlands. Stopping fossil fuel emissions will not be enough to limit global ...

Ocean acidity is one of the key markers of Earth's health, because if it tips too far towards acidic then the results can be catastrophic – and a new study suggests the world's waters are now entering ...

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

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth's habitability, based in part on ocean acidity. The new ...

The Antarctic, or Southern, Ocean is the world’s least-explored and least understood. But a team of scientists in land-locked Boulder has recently made a discovery that may lead to a better ...

The Danakil desert in Ethiopia with its acidic lakes gives an mpression of how Earth may have looked around 4 billion years ago. Pockets of liquid water existed on Earth already 4.1 billion years ago, ...

“Our results indicate that ocean acidi?cation has the potential to exacerbate anthropogenic warming through a mechanism that is not considered at present in projections of future climate change,” the ...

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 ...