Ocean warming may also further hinder sea scallop population growth, endangering one of the most valuable fisheries in the United States – worth $670 million in 2021, according to NOAA.

Scientists constructed a 100-year history of acidity in the Gulf of Maine. They expected coastal variability but were ...

“The fossil record is full of examples of global warming, ocean acidification, ... In the northeastern United States, for example, sea scallops are shifting northward and into deeper water.

As ocean acidification continues, ... Lessons from a scallop farm. ... "It's also overfishing combined with warming, combined with acidification, ...

Scallops, too, are victims of greenhouse gas emissions. We’ve all heard about global warming, and we know the primary cause is our profligate release to the atmosphere of carbon dioxide (CO2 ...

Like global warming, the acidification of our oceans is a problem that's vast in scale and demands a rapid and ambitious response. Even though our oceans are absorbing roughly one ton of CO 2 per ...

Ocean acidification refers to the drop in pH levels in seawater, which were on average 8.2 in the pre-industrial era. Since then, it has declined by 0.1 units.While this appears minute, because the pH ...

But as the ocean absorbs more industrial emissions of carbon dioxide, its pH is expected to double to 7.7 pH units by the end of the century, according to Aleck Wang, professor of marine chemistry ...