The Arctic Circle
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