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ocean acidification

How Trump Derailed a NOAA Pioneer’s Move From Climate Impacts to Solutions

Libby Jewett founded the U.S. ocean acidification program and had begun work on offshore wind energy. But she joined the past year’s historic exodus from the agency, the impacts of which are still not clear.

By Marianne Lavelle

Libby Jewett, the founding director of NOAA’s ocean acidification program, retired last year amid widespread layoffs across government agencies. Credit: Danielle Pease
A woman stands with a bucket of mussels in front of the sea at Magoito Beach in Portugal. Credit: Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images

The World’s Oceans Are a ‘Ticking Time Bomb,’ Reaching Dangerous Acidification Levels  Earlier Than Scientists Thought

By Georgina Gustin

The Total Culzean platform is pictured on the North Sea, about 45 miles east of the Aberdeen, Europe's self-proclaimed oil capital on Scotland's northeast coast. The oceans absorb about 25 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, and a team of engineers at the University of Pittsburgh has developed new technology to capture carbon dioxide directly from the ocean. Credit: (Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images.

Scientists Find Success With New Direct Ocean Carbon Capture Technology

By Ananya Chetia

A diver looks at reef of a major bleaching on the coral reefs of the Society Islands on May 9, 2019 in Moorea, French Polynesia. Credit: Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Big Reefs in Big Trouble: New Research Tracks a 50 Percent Decline in Living Coral Since the 1950s

By Bob Berwyn

Coral bleaching has ravaged the Great Barrier Reef

As Coral Reefs Continue to Struggle, a Group Forms to Save Them

By Nicholas Kusnetz

coral reef off the Florida coast

Is It Too Late for the World's Oceans?

By Lisa Song, SolveClimate News

Concern Over Ocean Acidification Ramps Up Research Dollars

By Lisa Song

New Film on Ocean Acidification Reveals Unseen Face of CO2 Pollution

By David Sassoon

Bad and Getting Worse: Surge in CO2 Emissions Damaging World’s Oceans

By Stacy Feldman

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