Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 22, 2016. For the first time, NOAA and partner scientists have connected the concentration of human-caused carbon dioxide in waters off the U.S. Pacific coast to the dissolving of shells of microscopic marine sea snails called pteropods.
Commercially valuable fish such as salmon, sablefish and rock sole make the pteropod a major part of their diet.
“This is the first time we’ve been able to tease out the percentage of human-caused carbon dioxide…
