date:Jul 12, 2012
ls. New research has also shown that higher CO2 levels can cause the nervous systems of some marine species to malfunction.
The recent increase in ocean acidity due to human activity in releasing carbon about 0.1 of a pH unit over the last half century is thought to be steeper even than in any of the past major extinctions, which eliminated between 70-90 per cent of marine species.
What this research shows is that some species, at least, may have more capacity to cope than we thought which