Acidification seriously threatens the marine environment

The impact of greenhouse gas emissions on global oceans is much more serious and complex than the international science calculations.

Life of creatures under the ocean is threatened. (Artwork: Internet)

This is the latest study published in the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) at the 16th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP-16) taking place in the coastal city of Cancun, Mexico, December 2.

In the title ' Environmental Consequences of Acidification of Seas and Oceans ,' the study emphasizes the process of absorbing CO ₂ emissions that alters the chemical composition of the ocean and oceans at high speed. never seen.

Over the past 65 million years, the pH of the ocean and ocean environment has decreased by 30%. The oceans and oceans absorb 25% of global CO2 emissions and convert into carbonic acid.

Scientists warn that in the coming decades, with the current rate of acidification, marine organisms such as corals, shellfish such as clams, shellfish, and crustaceans are in danger of becoming uninhabitable. shell.

Acidification combined with warming of the oceans makes many marine and marine animals no longer a suitable temperature environment to grow.

Food sources for species are also exhausted, threatening the lives of billions of people around the world who depend on them.

According to statistics, seafood sources currently provide 15% of protein for 3 billion people and are a major source of protein for more than 1 billion people around the world.

Mr. Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director warns, real acidification is a threat to the ocean and ocean environment as well as food and other resources from saltwater to humans, especially in the context of increasingly depleted seafood resources. This risk has reached the level of red alert because greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase uncontrollably today.