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Fish struggle with warming oceans and acidification

Inhabitat - Innovation

Fish face a new threat — ocean acidification caused by global warming. In a recent study published in Global Change Biology, researchers found that warming waters and acidification could adversely affect how fish interact in groups.

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Ocean Conservation: Ocean Acidification and the Impacts of Fish Migration

Green Tech Challenge

Put simply, ocean acidification is the imbalance of chemical content in ocean water; whereby there is increased acidity, and upward temperature changes. The ocean has experienced a 26% pH drop in the last century. Ocean acidification has negative effects on sea-life and the ecosystem.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups

GreenBiz

Thanks to their work, companies of all sizes soon may be able invest in ocean sequestration. One pioneer in this area is Shopify, an e-commerce company that has committed to spending $5 million annually on innovative clean technologies.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats up

GreenBiz

Thanks to their work, companies of all sizes soon may be able invest in ocean sequestration. One pioneer in this area is Shopify, an e-commerce company that has committed to spending $5 million annually on innovative clean technologies.

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Meet Ebb Carbon, the Startup Turbocharging Ocean-based Carbon Removal

Greentown Labs

Even apart from carbon capture and storage, deacidifying the ocean is an impactful effort in of itself. Ocean acidification is global warming’s forgotten crisis,” a Climate Home News article declares, and NOAA warns that it “could ultimately threaten a reorganization of the entire marine food chain.”.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

In general, there is a lot of dynamism and innovation in this sector, and that is a good thing," said Torsten Pohl, head of the Nestlé Product Technology Center in Singen, Germany, via email. Nestlé cites the sustainability benefits of reducing overfishing and protecting ocean biodiversity as motivators of these projects.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

As human society has continued to innovate exponentially, largely at the expense of the planet, scientists have hypothesized that we are beginning to enter a new epoch, or period of time in history, defined by human impact on the earth known as the Anthropocene.