Thursday, March 09, 2006

New Study: Fosssil Fuels Increasing Ocean Acidity

Oceans may soon be more corrosive than when the dinosaurs died | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference:
Press Release -- Source: Stanford University, Research by Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology -- 2/20/2006
"Increased carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly making the world's oceans more acidic and, if unabated, could cause a mass extinction of marine life similar to one that occurred 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs disappeared."

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