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There's an acidic zone 13,000 feet beneath the ocean surface — and it's getting bigger


The carbonate compensation depth — a zone where high pressure and low temperature creates conditions so acidic it dissolves shell and skeleton — could make up half of the global ocean by the end of the century.

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