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The escalating level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the world's oceans more acidic, government and independent scientists say. They warn that, by the end of the century, the trend could decimate coral reefs and creatures that underpin the sea's food web... The ph level for the world's oceans was stable between 1000 and 1800, but has dropped one-tenth of a unit since the Industrial Revolution, according to Christopher Langdon, a University of Miami marine biology professor. Scientists expect ocean pH levels to drop by another 0.3 units by 2100,...

No More Cod in 15 Years WWF Report Warns 5/12/2004 6:01:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National and International desks, Environment Reporter Contact: Martha Wilson of World Wildlife Fund, 202-778-9517 or martha.wilson@wwfus.org WASHINGTON, May 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report shows that global cod catch has suffered a 70 percent drop over the last 30 years, a trend that could cause the world's cod stocks to disappear in 15 years. Despite the dramatic collapse of North American cod populations in the mid-1990s signaling damaging overfishing of the species, fishing management on the far side of the...