THE first report on how acid seas could directly alter animal behaviour has emerged, just days after 150 marine scientists released a to draw attention to rising ocean acidity – dubbed global warming’s evil twin.
Rising carbon dioxide emissions have already driven ocean acidity up by a third. This was expected to make it hard for sea creatures like coral and oysters to grow skeletons. But an Australian team led by of James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, has found a possibly more worrying consequence.
Munday’s team raised clownfish (Amphiprion percula) larvae in either regular seawater…
