Listen to a Podcast About Ocean Acidification

Understand the "other CO2 problem" — how rising carbon dioxide levels are changing ocean chemistry, threatening marine ecosystems, coral reefs, and the entire ocean food chain.

Ocean pH has dropped from approximately 8.21 to 8.10 since the pre-industrial era — a 30% increase in acidity — as oceans absorb roughly 25% of human CO2 emissions, or about 22 million tons of CO2 per day. The Great Barrier Reef has experienced six mass bleaching events since 1998, with the 2016-2017 event killing approximately 50% of the reef's shallow-water corals. Pteropods, tiny sea snails that form a critical base of the marine food chain, are already showing shell dissolution in Antarctic waters, and projections suggest ocean acidity could increase by 150% by 2100 under high-emission scenarios.

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