"'Dead Muds': Shellfish harvesters plagued by acidification"

[GreenPartyVoter]

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — They’re called dead muds.

Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere combined with unregulated nitrogen pollution are having a deadly effect on Maine’s shellfish, some researchers say.

Scientists are starting to measure the impact of increasingly acidic waters on coastal organisms, and what they’ve found is alarming. Formerly fertile shellfish flats are becoming uninhabitable wastelands of dreck.

The phenomenon is another threat to Maine’s shellfish industry, estimated to be worth about $60 million annually.

http://bangordailynews.com/2011/10/07/environment/shellfish-harvesters-plagued-by-acidic-%E2%80%98dead-muds%E2%80%99/

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Discussion of same thing on the Great Barrier Reef in this article:

A long but very revealing article in Rolling Stone on climate change's impact on Australia,
includes how it affects the famous giant coral reefs...essentially turns them into slime.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/climate-change-and-the-end-of-australia-20111003

[asjr]

2. God only knows what we have thrown

into our seas.