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Food for thought: More acidic oceans threat to marine organisms and Arctic communities
Learn more about the causes and effects of ocean acidification, “climate change’s evil twin.”

The pH is falling! Oysters and economics on the Hill
WWF-Canada and the All Party Ocean Caucus hosted an Oceans on the Hill event to highlight the global issue of ocean acidification. Learn more about ocean acidification’s impacts on the shellfish industry.

VIFF: There Once was an Island
"For a lot of people in the developed world, climate change is something that's going to happen. In places in the developing world, it's very much a reality already."

The evil partner of climate change: Ocean acidification
Coral reefs are in decline worldwide because of global warming, overfishing and other impacts. Ocean acidification, unless rapidly addressed, will kill them completely. The outlook is grim: tropical reefs globally may start dissolving as early as mid-century if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are allowed to double by that time from their pre-industrial level.

50 Stories: Protecting tropical oceans
Beneath the surface of our oceans lies an incredible world which we’ve fought for decades to protect.