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UAB Expert: Increasing Acidity Proves CO2 Is Harming Marine Life

Author:Environmental Protection
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Date:2/8/2010

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Jim McClintock says the increased acidity of the seawater itself can literally begin to eat away at the outer surfaces of shells of existing clams, snails, and other calcified organisms, which could cause species to die outright or become vulnerable to new predators."
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pollution, mercury, TSCA, Toxic, CO2, Carbon Dioxide, energy, biology, Climate Change, Climate, erosion, Climate Change, Erosion, Food Chain, Ion, Mercury, Organism, pH, Population, Species

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