Dr. Mark Green spends his summers in the mud of Maine's coastal areas, researching the fate of larval bivalves, also called spat.

What he's found isn't encouraging. The mud in some places along Maine's coast is so acidic that spat risk dissolving if they try to settle. While that's bad news for bivalves, it provides valuable insight into what scientists can expect from ocean acidification. More...

[workingwaterfront.com (Oct 6, 2009)]