What may be the broadest and longest study to date has found Canada's Arctic Ocean is growing more acidic up to four times faster than any other sea on the planet.
The acidification, linked to the loss of sea ice, will have unknown repercussions for the life in those waters, said Wei-Jun Cai, an oceanographer at the University of Delaware and co-author of the"There will be a whole suite of impacts," he said. "Biologists will have to do more work."
It found almost a million square kilometres of ocean had grown more acidic, including more northern waters where the effect hadn't been seen before. Finally, that fresher water also tends to counteract ions that lend alkalinity, emphasizing acidification.
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