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global warming :: Rising carbon dioxide emissions are :: ENN
SYDNEY -- Rising carbon dioxide emissions are making the world's oceans more acidic, particularly closer to the poles, heralding disaster for marine life, a major U.N.
climate panel, said research showed a high take-up of carbon dioxide by polar oceans was producing marked changes in several species.
'Carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere continue to rise, putting a greater strain on the world's oceans which are being forced to absorb more of these emissions than ever before and with potentially catastrophic effects, ' he said.
'Many important planktonic species such as pteropods, or sea snails, and some algae and single-celled animals rely on calcium carbonate for their shells to develop, ' he said.
Other recent reports say corals and molluscs are also being affected by increasingly acidic oceans, disrupting the processing of calcium carbonate for their skeletons and shells.
A report by the Royal Society in 2005 said there appeared to be no practical way to remove the additional carbon dioxide from oceans after it had been absorbed, nor any realistic way to reverse its widespread chemical and biological effects.
It predicted more severe rains, melting glaciers, droughts, heatwaves and rising sea levels, particularly if ice sheets in Antarctica or Greenland thaw.

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Ocean Currents, Climate and Weather and Sea Life
Understanding Oceans Questions and then work in groups to answer the Discussion Questions .
Choose any 4 topics from the list of lesson plans relating to oceans, climate or weather .
Use a search engine or other methods to find the answer.
The Sea - Check out each section for an overview .
Sea Suface Temperatures for the East Coast of North America .
This is great resource for pictures and data about different kinds of marine life What Mammals live in the oceans? .

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Oceans of Kansas Paleontology
Fossils from the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Sea .
Welcome to the Oceans of Kansas Paleontology web page.
In that regard, in 1996 I created Oceans of Kansas Paleontology as an educational site to provide factual information about the animals that lived in and over the ancient ocean that once covered Kansas and much of the central portion of North America.
Everhart, published June, 2005 by the Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253345472 "A journey to a time when sea monsters roamed the middle of America" .
Oceans of Kansas was named the featured book from Kansas for the 2006 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
I do recommend some excellent dinosaur sites on the Oceans of Kansas Links page.
Oceans of Kansas webpages (mostly about sharks) translated into French by Jean-Michel Benoit .
Be warned that Oceans of Kansas Paleontology is a very LARGE and constantly changing web site.
06/27/04 Pycnodonts and Hadrodus - Rare smaller fish in the Cretaceous seas of Kansas.
02/05/04 Saurocephalus , Saurodon and Prosaurodon - "Sword-eels" of the Late Cretaceous sea.
10/22/03 An Extinct Sea Lizard from Western Kansas - Charles Gilmore (1921) ePaper describing the Tylosaurus exhibit at the Smithsonian.

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