Carol Turley: When you add CO2, carbon dioxide, to sea water, it forms a weak acid, carbonic acid. And that is making the oceans more acidic.

卡罗尔·特里：二氧化碳与海水发生化学反应，生成一种弱酸，名为碳酸，从而导致海水酸化。

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Carol Turley:... things like coral reefs will not be able to make their shells so quickly, so fast. Things like shellfish, things we eat, will be impacted by this.

卡罗尔·特里：珊瑚礁等海洋生物将无法快速生长外壳。人类食用的海洋生物，如贝类，将因此受到影响。

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You're listening to Carol Turley, a senior scientist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the U.K. Her research confirms that oceans are acidifying from atmospheric CO2.

您正在收听的是栏目组对资深科学家卡罗尔·特里的专访。 卡罗尔·特里来自英国普利茅斯海洋实验室。

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