Enlarge (credit: Massachusetts Fisheries) Species don’t live in isolation; they live in very tangled, complicated, interconnected webs. So studying them in isolation has only limited utility, much like studying cells cultured in a sterile petri dish. These laboratory studies can yield suggestive and promising results, but these results are not always applicable to how the […]
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Some species could survive ocean acidification by leaning on neighbors
Enlarge (credit: Klaus Stiefel / Flickr) The direct chemical effect of our CO2 emissions on our planet’s oceans gets far less attention than the indirect effects caused by global warming. But CO2 lowers the seawater’s pH—known as “ocean acidification”—and this has been shown to be a serious problem for many species. Acidification makes it harder for […]
