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waters of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas could become so acidic that it may impair the ability of
marine organisms to build and maintain shells. Waters of the Bering Sea could reach this this
level of acidity by 2044. Increasing acidification would not only affect shell-building species.
Many of the shell-building animals that are feeling the impacts today are food for much bigger
species, like whales. Ocean acidification could cause a radical reshuffling of ocean life in the
Arctic.” -oceanconservancy.org, 2012
The Arctic Circle
