Ocean Acidification

It is the ongoing decrease in the pH of Earth's oceans that is caused by Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. It causes planktonic and benthic organisms to become weaker and face dissolution. Humans burning fossil fuels and using CO2 on land is contributing to it. We can extract carbonic acid for use in making synthetic fuel. I learned that one third of all carbon dioxide emitted by humanity has been absorbed by the world’s oceans and that we are destroying approximately one coral reef everyday. I also learned that coral reefs are being lost more than twice as fast as the rainforests.