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  • One vulnerable coral type adapts to ocean acidification in just 6 months

    10/04/2012 11:37:55 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 11 replies
    JoNova ^ | October 5th, 2012 | Joanne
    We already know that pH varies naturally across the oceans of the world. In some sites, it varies more in a single day than global oceans are likely to face in a century. But cold water corals live in deep water, are slow growing, and hard to study.Six years ago, experts in cold water corals were telling us how they would be likely to fall victim to ocean acidification first, and that they believed this for good reasons but with little experimental data. But about a year ago data came out (by one of those same experts) showing that rather...