Ocean acidification makes coralline algae less robust

Ocean acidification (the ongoing decrease in the pH of Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere), is affecting the formation of the skeleton of coralline algae which play an important part in marine biodiversity, new research has found.

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