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The Washington Post reports on the establishment of the International Coordinating Office for Ocean Acidification, which will be housed within the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Environment Laboratories in Monaco. This will be the first global attempt to monitor how increasing carbon emissions are making the world’s oceans more acidic. The US has pledged $1 million in funding to the new body, which will need an estimated $50 million for a “robust” effort. The new body will be officially launched on 24 June at the Rio+20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.