#oceanacidification — Public Fediverse posts
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#PlasticPatrol: the #CitizenScientists tackling #litter in #Australian #waterways
#Plastics make up the majority of litter across the country. In the absence of regulation, the public are taking matters into their own hands
by James Norman, Fri 30 Jan 2026
"Neil Blake weighs a paper bag of fake grass fragments he has collected from a stormwater gutter near #DarebinCreek in #Melbourne’s north.
"Over the past three years Blake has conducted 56 collections of synthetic turf in the waterway alongside the KP Hardiman Reserve hockey pitch.
" 'I noticed that a local hockey pitch was being replaced and the plastic surface was running off into the local environment,' he says. Strong northerly winds and #LeafBlowers had helped shed the turf fragments into the local #environment.
"In addition to impacts on #AquaticEcosystems, scientific analysis suggests #PlasticPollution is exacerbating #ClimateChange, #biodiversity loss and #OceanAcidification.
"Australians produce more than 3m tonnes of plastic waste each year, and according to Clean Up’s annual survey of parks, beaches, creeks and other public spaces, plastics make up more than 80% of litter across the country. A review by the New South Wales chief scientist found that one #SyntheticTurf field could transport between 10kg and 100kg of plastic fragments into the #stormwater system or local waterways.
"Blake has taken advantage of the electronic scales provided by the newly opened community science laboratory in the Port Phillip #EcoCentre in #StKilda, to quantify his samples to present to the local council and the Environment Protection Authority. The lab hosts facilities including microscopes, measuring equipment, safety gear and access to advice from trained scientists.
"It’s one example of citizen scientists tackling the growing problem of plastics in #waterways, including #beaches, #rivers and dive sites around the country."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/okVtk#SolarPunkSunday #LitterCleanup #NewSouthWales #Australia #PlasticTurf #PlasticPollution #CitizenScience #WaterIsLife #Astroturf #PlasticPollution #Microplastics
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#Oceans just hit an ominous milestone
A new report sounds alarm on #oceanacidification as #Earth breaches the seventh of nine "#planetaryboundaries."
Relentless #acidification of the #seas that’s crossed into dangerous territory, threatening all manner of #marine life, including the organisms at the base of the #foodweb.
#Climate is changing rapidly; #humans are using too much #freshwater; we’re driving species to #extinction and transforming the #biosphere
https://grist.org/climate/the-oceans-just-hit-an-ominous-milestone/ -
#ocean #acidification #oceanacidification #planetaryboundary #PotsdamInstitute
Original open access article:
Findlay et al. 09 June 2025, Glob Change Biol 31: e70238
Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70238
#ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #climatecatastrophe #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #EcosystemCollapse #ecocide #fossilfuels #Co2 #Co2Emissions #GreenhouseGases
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‘Ticking timebomb’: #sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire #ecosystems
#OceanAcidification has crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say.
Ocean acidification, called "evil twin" of #climatecrisis, is caused when #carbondioxide is absorbed by ocean, where it reacts with water molecules leading to a fall in #pH of #seawater. It damages #coral #reefs and other #ocean habitats and, in extreme cases, can dissolve the shells.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/09/sea-acidity-ecosystems-ocean-acidification-planetary-health-scientists -
John Scales Avery (1933-2024) was an American theoretical chemist. In his book "Civilization's Crisis" he argues that civilization as a whole faces a set of linked challenges. #ClimateChange is caused by consumption of non-renewable #FossilFuels but it is just one aspect of a bigger crisis. Other aspects are #Deforestation, #OceanAcidification, #NuclearWaste and #pollution in general. #ResourceDepletion and #VanishingResources in combination with #OverPopulation will eventually lead to a #collapse of #civilization in this century according to #systemdynamics and classic #limitstogrowth models. The turning point is #PeakOil or the #HubbertPeak which we are reaching now.
https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/10501More articles from John can be found here
https://www.johnavery.info/ -
#ShowYourStripes get new meanings as now you can also generate #biodiversity stripes as well as (for use #carbonate people) #OceanAcidification and aragonite saturation for different #ocean basins https://oceanacidificationstripes.info/
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Ocean Acidification - an excellent 16min video from #TheEconomist. Beautiful imagery; terrifying science & explanations. "What's happening now is at a scale & at a speed which is unprecedented." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVWZyDz--30
#OceanAcidification #Coralporosis #DissolvingShell #Pteropod #CantMakeShell #Oyster #ChallengerDeep #DissolvingReef #CaliforniaCoral #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Extinction #Biodiversity #MarineBiology #Ocean #Sustainability #Survival #documentary #Degrowth #CircularEconomy