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Marine Scientists Issue Monaco Declaration Calling for Immediate Action to Reduce Ocean Acidification

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A previous natural ocean acidification event that occurred approximately 55 million years ago at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is linked to mass extinctions of some calcareous marine organisms (Zachos et al., Across the range of IPCC SRES scenarios, surface ocean pH is projected to decrease by 0.4 ± 0.1 2007; Tyrrell et al.,

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