The rising level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the world's oceans more acidic. Jacqueline Ruttimann reports on the potentially catastrophic effect this could have on marine creatures.
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Ruttimann, J. Sick seas. Nature 442, 978–980 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/442978a
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