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NOAA, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reports [*] on the discovery, published in Nature Climate Change (full article is pay-walled):
[...] that between the 1990s and 2010, acidified waters expanded northward approximately 300 nautical miles from the Chukchi Sea slope off the coast of northwestern Alaska to just below the North Pole. Also, the depth of acidified waters increased from approximately 325 feet below the surface to more than 800 feet.
The United Nations Development Programme explains that
[...] since gases such as CO2 dissolve more readily in colder water, ocean acidification will progress – already is progressing – much more rapidly in the Arctic and Antarctic, where a number of species are already facing challenges in fixing their shells. Under a lower pH ocean future, increasing numbers of calcium carbonate fixing organisms could face dramatic losses or even extinction.
[*] (archive link 1, archive link 2)
Additional coverage:
- The Canadian Press via the Toronto Star
- The Canadian Press via the Chronicle Herald (identical to story in Toronto Star)
- Eurekalert
- University of Delaware UDaily
- Tech Times
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @03:02PM (2 children)
everything paid for by tax payers monies and then pay-walled off the bat is a lie.
maybe i should find a (short-lived) job in the CO2-free nuclear industry so i have MONEY to BUY this information and feel vindicated?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 03 2017, @03:58PM
Really dumb generalization you've got there. I don't like tax payer funded research being paywalled, but it doesn't mean it is a lie. If it was a lie I would expect the paper to be free so it could sway public opinion with its dubious research. We already know that blatant lies and shoddy research make it into the news cycle with hardly any problems, and peer review does not really matter unless it is a big enough lie that the debunking becomes newsworthy.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by ikanreed on Monday April 03 2017, @04:43PM
Let me introduce you to a wonderful (illegal) thing called sci hub [sci-hub.cc].
You copy the DOI string("10.1038/nclimate3228" in this case) for the article that's paywalled, paste in into their search engine, and a pirated copy is almost always available. I feel a little guilty for ripping off the journals, but then I remember their business model is priced on only professionals specifically dealing with their field bothering to pay exorbitant amounts, and I decide they're probably not losing anything.