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Loading...10 Marine Species Threatened by Ocean Acidification
- Samantha, selected from TreeHugger
- February 12, 2012
- 5:07 pm
- 106 comments
By David DeFranza, TreeHugger
1. Blue Sea Slug
The ocean is a delicate place, and tiny changes to its composition can cause serious devastation.
Adding carbon to the atmosphere contributes to global warming and climate change. Another less-discussed impact is ocean acidification—whereby carbon molecules diffuse into the ocean from the atmosphere, causing a steady rise in acidity—even though the impacts are already being felt by many species.
The beautiful blue sea slug, seen here, is one such creature. Blue sea slugs feed on the poisonous Portuguese man of war jellyfish, meaning that an ocean without them would be an ocean with a lot more stinging jellyfish.
Image: lostandcold / Flickr
Read more: Environment, Green, Nature, Nature & Wildlife, ocean acidification, oceans
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F#@* fricking Monsanto!!!!
Thanks.
Good advise, but sometimes difficult to follow, thanks.
hmmmm....nice.Tyvm
very informative.
106 comments
+ add your ownWe are supposed to be stewards for this planet we live on. Very disturbing that we've lost sight of this concept.
Thanks for posting, read this before and it is a disgrace!!
We humans have to start thinking about all these animals who we are causeing so much harm. It's just time to pull our heads out of the sand and start cleaning up our oceans.
This MANKIND doing what they do best kill off innocent animals that are just busy living nothing more nothing less.
All life is linked, we're all threatened!
IT'S TERRIBLE
not just 10
Dumb Asses...... Where is the outrage????
very sad
For a minute I thought it was a new breed of the Bata Fish.
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