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lower bay cheasapeake bay
-0.1 pH over 40 years = 30% increase
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palm coast
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION
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tampa bay
our arable lands are being depleted due to increasing acidity of our waterways and insufficient replenishment of minerals critical to sustainaing our riparian, prairie, amphibian, mollusk, and aquatic species
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how does this affect our aquatic and terrestrial species?
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by 2050, we may no longer have any consumable shellfish, and our coral reefs will dissapear, along with 25% of all marine/aquatic species
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