Shark teeth are “highly developed weapons built for cutting flesh, not resisting ocean acid,” Baum said. Sharks will go ...

A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks’ teeth and found that future generations of ...

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

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 ...

The deep oceans have crossed a crucial boundary that threatens their ability to provide the surface with food and oxygen, a new study finds. Nearly two-thirds of the ocean below 200 meters, or 656 ...

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 ...

Sharks are famous for their fearsome teeth. That could change - Scientists have linked human activities including the burning ...

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

Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels, and transforming the oceans. Even if countries ...

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, ...