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With the effects of climate change and ocean acidification caused by greenhouse gases worsening, government bodies worldwide are pressed to find a way to curb with carbon dioxide emissions. But with fossil fuel still proving to be the dominant source of fuel and with the recent G8 agreement to target a 50% reduction in carbon [...]

Oceans becoming acidified due to the absorption of carbon dioxide may have ecological and economic consequences that are difficult to predict but is possibly calamitous, warned a team of chemical oceanographers in the July 4 issue of Science, and halting the changes already underway will likely require even steeper cuts in carbon emissions than those [...]