Rishith

What is ocean acidification? For millions of years, the exchange of CO2 between the surface of the ocean and the atmosphere remained constant.In the past 150 years, humans have greatly increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and changing land-usepractices.As a result, the ocean has absorbed about 29 percent of this additional carbon.This added CO2 has had significant effects on the ocean. Surface waters are now 30 percent more acidic than they were atthe start of the industrial era.Ocean acidification is now happening at a faster rate than at any point in the last 66 million years, and possibly in the last 300 millionyears.And projections show that by the end of this century, ocean surface waters could be more than twice as acidic as they were at the end of last century if we do not reduce our carbon emissions. Ocean acidification affects marine life  Coastal and marine ecosystems are under tremendous stress from climate change. Ocean acidification, pa...