Climate Change Is Acidifying Our Lakes and Rivers the Same Way It Does With Oceans
Acidifying Water Earth’s oceans absorb about 40% of all the carbon dioxide (CO2) that humans emit into the atmosphere. Wildlife Danger It is likely, according to this study, that freshwater systems absorb CO2 in different ways than oceans do. To explore this further, the team documented the effects of this acidification in freshwater crustaceans —two species of Daphnia, which are known as water fleas. In ocean studies, acidification affects animals’ abilities to form shells, but these freshwater species had before not been studied. This body of research still needs further exploration, but it is clear that climate change is contributing to acidification in freshwater bodies of water as well as the oceans.
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