The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

Although it may not be discussed frequently, ocean acidification is one of the biggest problems humanity (and the environment) faces today. The rising acidity of the ocean is not only harming biodiversity and marine ecosystems, but is impacting human industries that rely on the ocean’s resources.

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Ocean acidification Organic Carbon Agriculture 391

Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

But the incident pointed to a serious problem: Ruminant livestock, mostly cattle, account for 30 percent of all global methane emissions, pumping out 3 gigatons of the gas every year in their burps, farts, and manure. It can reverse ocean acidification by absorbing carbon dioxide.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Scientists have recently added to the body of evidence confirming global warming as the cause of previous extinction events. This led them to conclude that the cause of the extinction was warming and ocean acidification attributable to the release of GHGs from massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia.

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Climate change Ocean acidification Global warming Organic 98

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Concerning the meat industry’s argument that some pastures cannot be used for other forms of agriculture, University of Oxford researcher Marco Springmann argues that “if everybody were to make the argument that ‘our pastures are the best and should be used for grazing’, then there would be no way to limit global warming.”

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