Water Temperature Continues to Rise with Ocean Fever; Climate Change Worsens the Situation
(Photo : Sato T. and Nakamura T., Scientific Reports, July 26, 2019) According to Pippa Moore, a marine-community ecologist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, the effects of marine heatwaves will reverberate up the food chain. Phytoplankton development was harmed by warm, low-nutrient water in the Northwest Pacific during The Blob, a coastal heatwave from 2013 to 2016. Then the population of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) plummeted, and up to one million seabirds died in the Gulf of Alaska. For the last few decades, large quantities of coral bleaching have occurred in r...
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