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Impact of Rising Carbon Dioxide Found in World Oceans

Last month, an international team of scientists completed the first comprehensive study of the ocean storage of carbon dioxide derived from human activity, called anthropogenic carbon dioxide, based on a decade-long survey of global ocean carbon distributions in the 1990s.

"About half of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide taken up over the last 200 years can be found in the upper 10 percent of the ocean," said Christopher Sabine, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, Washington. "The ocean has removed 48 percent of the carbon dioxide we have released to the atmosphere from burning fossil ...

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