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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/mussels-cathy-pfister.png357267Cathy Pfister's "wow" moment came when she and colleague Tim Wootton were studying the chemistry and sea life of Washington's Tatoosh Island and found a decrease in pH over an 8-year-period that was an order of magnitude greater than what they expected. It was a troubling trend---given the problems that sea life can run into as a result of ocean acidification, a change in ocean chemistry accelerated by fossil fuel pollution. As we pump more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, seawater becomes more acidic and some creatures have trouble building shells and skeletons. In more acidic water, oysters struggle, some forms of plankton dissolve, squid become lethargic, and fish embryos can die.