Weather.com - 10/8/12
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IFM Geomar scientists take samples of water from large floating contraptions, that are used to predict the acidity in the oceans sit offshore the scientific outpost of Ny-Alesund on June 3, 2010. The icy Arctic waters around Norway's archipelago of Svalbard may seem pristine and clear, but like the rest of the world's oceans they are facing the threat of growing acidity.
Peering into the microscope, Alan Barton thought the baby oysters looked normal, except for one thing: They were dead.
Slide after slide, the results were the same. The entire batch of 100 million larvae at the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery had perished.
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