EPOCA to study increasing ocean acid levels; but how is CO2 increasing when temperatures on the rise?

May 29, 2008

In France, EPOCA, the European Project on Ocean Acidification, will launch in Nice next month. The project takes up the subject of the increase in CO2 levels in the oceans. The group says 25 million tons of CO2 is absorbed by the oceans each day. However, the group reports that CO2 levels are rising, causing a harmful buildup on acid levels in the water. What makes this curious is that the ocean’s ability to absorb CO2 decreases when water temperature rises. The group’s formation raises the intriguing possibility that other forces besides global warming are at work in the oceans.

Canada’s Ocean Nutrition Canada sells fish oil biodiesel; could reduce ocean dumping of waste fish extract

In Canada, Ocean Nutrition Canada is selling biodiesel made from fish oil. 21 million gallons of waste fish oil are produced annually by the Alaskan fishing industry, of which 13 million gallons are d...

Philippines issues new biofuels standards; no FAME standard for biodiesel in light of slow growth of jatropha

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B10 reduces emissions, same fuel economy as diesel, Purdue study finds

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“Sustainability” rises 169% in “buzz” level in Nielsen BuzzMetric report

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Minnesota B20 biodiesel mandate becomes law

In Minnesota, Governor Tim Pawlenty signed a biofuels bill increasing the state's biodiesel mandate to 20 percent by 2015. Under the new law, B5 biodiesel will be mandated in May 2009, increasing to B...

Archer Daniels Midland to bury CO2 in study of new emission reduction tactic

In Illinois, Archer Daniels Midland said that it will initiate an $84 million project that buries, or sequesters, carbon dioxide emissions. The technique, which is not yet proven to be a stable soluti...

Written by Jim Lane · Filed Under Research