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Pacific Ocean acid found dissolving crab shells

Humans have pumped about 1.8 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution, and the ocean has absorbed about 25 per cent of it. This glut of greenhouse gases not only warms the ocean, but also changes

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