{"id":2133,"date":"2012-11-27T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2012\/11\/ocean-acidification-threatens-sea-snails\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:55:27","slug":"ocean-acidification-threatens-sea-snails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/ocean-acidification-threatens-sea-snails\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Acidification Threatens Sea Snails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sea snails&#8217; shells are being eaten by increasingly acidic ocean waters, the first evidence that the changing chemistry of the oceans threatens marine habitat.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/11\/26\/world\/dissolving-sea-snails\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth&#8217;s atmosphere is increasing, mainly because of the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the World Meteorological Organization. That means that the planet&#8217;s oceans, natural carbon storage facilities, are absorbing more and more of the gas, which makes them more acidic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Compounding the potential loss of sea snails is the fact that decreased biodiversity leaves coastal environments less resilient in the face of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/v5\/n12\/full\/ngeo1635.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea snails&#8217; shells are being eaten by increasingly acidic ocean waters, the first evidence that the changing chemistry of the oceans threatens marine habitat. Read more on CNN: The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth&#8217;s atmosphere is increasing, mainly because of the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, according to the World Meteorological Organization. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212,211],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-community-engagement-and-empowerment","7":"category-environmental-conservation","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6224,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/6224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}