dungeness crab

Top Tweets
Graphic image of two round blue water droplets with blue H in each.
Two people embracing and standing at a car looking at a destroyed house.
Sunset photo of train tracks with a bridge in the background.
Person with a blonde buzz cut and earrings standing with sign that says Fossil Fuel: Boy Bye
Rising ocean acidity bad news for West Coast’s $200 million Dungeness crab fishery

Rising ocean acidity bad news for West Coast’s $200 million Dungeness crab fishery

The findings have unsettling implications for California's most valuable ocean crop.

Newsletter
Ocean acidification is literally dissolving the shells of dungeness crabs

Ocean acidification is literally dissolving the shells of dungeness crabs

In a recent peer-reviewed, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-funded study published in Science of the Total Environment, populations of our beloved crustacean in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia were found to have shell damaged linked to an increasingly acidic Pacific.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
MOST POPULAR
CLIMATE