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In Hot Water: How Global Warming Threatens Rhode Island’s Iconic Narragansett Bay « NSF Science & Engineering Messengers

At Salve Regina University, meanwhile, Rhode Island scientists are gathering baseline data on populations of marine invertebrates like crabs and lobsters, a first step towards determining these populations’ vulnerability to climate change. These species are very temperature-sensitive, and of course, also central to the seafood industry. Indeed, lobsters have been declining in the past decade, perhaps in part due to rising temperatures.

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Dec. '09: Giant Lobsters From Rising Greenhouse Gases? : NPR

A new study published in the journal Geology shows that if carbon dioxide emissions reach extreme levels, the changes in the world's oceans might result in lobsters 50 percent bigger than normal.

Lobsters can take carbon from the water and use it to build their exoskeletons, says marine geologist Justin Ries, who oversaw the study. The theory, he tells NPR's Guy Raz, is that lobsters are able to convert the extra carbon into material for building up their shells.

Lobster Glut Slams Prices - WSJ.com

Along with Canada, Maine's thousands of independent lobstermen supply the vast majority of the world's clawed lobsters, which have seen a population boom over the past three decades due to rising water temperatures and overfishing of cod and haddock, their main predators.