Another is ocean acidification, also caused by burning fossil fuels. In 2023, researchers determined that six of these boundaries had already been crossed. The new research adds a worrying seventh.

Another is ocean acidification, also caused by burning fossil fuels. In 2023, researchers determined that six of these boundaries had already been crossed. The new research adds a worrying seventh.

Ocean acidification - RAW/STOCKSHOTS. Posted: June 3, 2025 | Last updated: June 4, 2025. Rising carbon dioxide emissions are not only increasing global temperatures, but are also making the oceans ...

As this year's United Nations Ocean Conference began in France on Monday, scientists published a study showing that another "planetary boundary," or barriers that ensure the Earth is a "safe operating ...

Ahead of the opening of the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France (9-13 June), WWF is urging world leaders and businesses to seize the opportunity to deliver on their promises to protect ...

Ocean acidification is the name given to the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by their uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Between 1751 and 1994 ...

When two bodies of water with distinct characteristics converge, they can flow side by side without immediately blending, ... and ocean currents also play a role in maintaining these separations.

As warmer waters and ocean acidification reduce coral formation, the seas will take up more carbon dioxide – an effect that hasn't been included in climate models. Close. Advertisement.

The deep oceans have crossed a crucial boundary that threatens their ability to provide the surface with food and oxygen, a new study finds. Nearly two-thirds of the ocean below 200 meters, or 656 ...

CLAUDINE HAURI, NICOLAS GRUBER, GIAN-KASPER PLATTNER, SIMONE ALIN, RICHARD A. FEELY, BURKE HALES, PATRICIA A. WHEELER, OCEAN ACIDIFICATION IN THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM, Oceanography, Vol. 22, No.

Simulation results indicate that reduced coral reef calcification due to ocean acidification could increase the ocean's carbon uptake by 1–5% by 2100 and up to 13% by 2300.

Our lives are woven into the ocean, and when it suffers, we suffer too. The ocean is our lifeblood. It is our provider, the foundation of our cultures, and our home.