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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Tidepools-by-Roy-Luck-cc..jpg1024768Editor’s Note 8/11/2015: Everyone in the Northwest is feeling the heat this summer, and the Pacific Ocean is no exception. Record-breaking warm water temperatures have negative impacts on marine ecosystems, from toxic algae blooms to early shellfish closures and salmon deaths. Possibly worse than rising ocean temperatures is ocean acidification, the absorption of carbon dioxide into the sea. Ocean acidification also negatively affects mollusks and other marine animals, and hurts lucrative Northwest industries. Want to learn more about ocean acidification and its impact on the Northwest? Here’s your primer. This primer is also available in a two-page summary format. Tiny sea butterflies dissolve before researchers’ eyes. Baby oysters die by the tankful. Sea urchins grow deformed. These are a few consequences of raising marine creatures in increasingly corrosive water. And they could preview what’s in store for the Northwest as carbon dioxide pollution from cars, power plants, and other human sources changes the chemistry of our marine waters.