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• New Zealand Ocean Waters’ “Signs of structural collapse…”

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 4, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  “We’re getting vision of this landscape scale collapse for the first time … arguably it’s a little bit worse than we expected because of the extent of the barreness and the distribution so far out to sea,” Frankham told Breakfast.

• Crab Industry at Odds with Warming Waters

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  But as rising ocean temperatures threaten to make fishery closures routine, it will be even harder to count on crab for holiday meals—or livelihoods. Over the past decade, warming sea waters have produced harmful algal blooms that contaminate crab meat with domoic acid, a neurotoxin that can cause seizures, memory loss and other serious symptoms and has been blamed for poisoning and stranding scores of sea lions in California every year. State officials delayed three out of the last six crab seasons to protect public health after an unprecedented multiyear marine heat wave, dubbed “the blob,” hit the north Pacific Ocean in 2013.

• Toxic Dumps in Ocean are Likely Cause of Sea Lion Cancer

  By Charmaine Coimbra on February 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The research was conducted over two decades. To date, almost 25% of the sea lions that first responders bring to the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito have died from one aggressive cancer, among the highest prevalence of a single cancer type in any mammal, including humans.

• New Whale Species Found That’s ‘Critically Endangered’

  By Charmaine Coimbra on January 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration believe they have identified a new species of whale in the Gulf of Mexico. The Rice’s whale is a filter feeder that can grow to 42 feet. It’s also critically endangered. There… Read More ›

• The Dangerous Heating of the Southern Ocean

  By Charmaine Coimbra on January 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  “The Southern Ocean is one of the most important yet least explored and understood regions of the planet when it comes to determining how global warming may affect the future of humanity, thanks to its capacity to absorb huge quantities of heat and carbon dioxide, and melt swaths of the Antarctic ice sheet.”

• Study Shows 3 Billion Microplastic Particles a Day Flow into Bay Of Bengal

  By Charmaine Coimbra on January 25, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  More than 90% of the microplastics found were fibres and, among them, rayon (54%) and acrylic (24%) – both of which are commonly used in clothing – were the most abundant.

• We’re in Hot Water with Warming Oceans

  By Charmaine Coimbra on January 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  More than 90% of the heat trapped by carbon emissions is absorbed by the oceans, making their warmth an undeniable signal of the accelerating crisis. The researchers found the five hottest years in the oceans had occurred since 2015, and that the rate of heating since 1986 was eight times higher than that from 1960-85.

• 90% of Sunflower Sea Stars Gone

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 18, 2020 • ( 0 )

  New research shows that more than 90 per cent of sunflower sea stars off the West Coast have died over the past decade, and the species is close to extinction.  The study, led by Oregon State University, the Nature Conservancy and over 60… Read More ›

• The Gulf Stream and Climate Explained

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

• Plastics in the Sea Continue Impacting Sea Life

  By Charmaine Coimbra on November 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The Oceana report found that in the reported cases, 90 percent of the animals had swallowed plastic, and the rest were entangled in it. Necropsies often showed that the animals had died from blockages or lacerations. Other times, ingesting plastic may have simply weakened the animal or played no role in its death. Over all, in 82 percent of the cases, the animals died..

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