Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine ...

Over time, more hydrogen ions and fewer carbonate ions cause the ocean to trend towards acidity. Some marine organisms, such as oysters and corals, need calcium and carbonate — or salt molecules made ...

Ocean acidification can negatively affect marine life, causing organisms' shells and skeletons made from calcium carbonate to dissolve. The more acidic the ocean, the faster the shells dissolve. By ...

A new publication by researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford shows that the ...

A research team has shown that methanogens, micro-organisms ubiquitous in low-oxygen environments like aquifers, soil and even permafrost, can propel their growth by dissolving calcium carbonate, one ...

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team has identified new microscopic players in the global carbon cycle, a discovery ...

This week, a team of marine biologists released findings ... the sea cucumber's sparkly clean digestion is an increase in ...

While all scleractinian corals deposit calcium carbonate skeletons ... one can find nearly 25% of all marine fishes. Coral reefs, therefore, are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet ...

Saturated with calcium carbonate and teeming with a diversity of marine organisms, the bottom of this ancient sea received a steady deposit of fine marine sediments and animal shells. Over tens of ...

Like land plants and seagrasses, microscopic marine algae known as phytoplankton ... calcium and dissolved carbonates to form a calcium carbonate protective coating like the shells and other ...