Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. (2019, April 23). Carbon dioxide from Silicon Valley affects the chemistry of Monterey Bay. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 6, 2019, from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190423145520.htm
MBARI researchers have recently measured high concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air blowing out to sea from urban neighborhoods, including Silicon Valley. They have found that the high concentrations of CO2 could increase the amount of carbon dioxide dissolving in Monterey Bay waters by about 20 percent. In addition, they went ahead and looked at all coastal areas around the world and came to the conclusion that this new intake could give off 25 million additional tons of CO2 into the ocean.
This article relates to environmental science through its connection of ocean acidification and how the local CO2 concentrations can easily hover over urban areas in the mornings causing risks of human health with the increase in air temperatures. Ocean acidification is a huge problem that still had yet to be fixed or reduced sustainably.
Good local article Julia. What is interesting to me is that it seems to imply that higher concentrations of CO2 from specific places could have more localized results. Did the article say that? Like one neighborhood producing lots of CO2 next to the ocean might cause that part of the ocean to have bigger drop in pH? Interesting idea.