Ocean Conservation

Environmental activists demand investigation into whale deaths at the Jershey Shore

https://6abc.com/jersey-shore-whales-washes-ashore-atlantic-city-new-humpback-whale-south-mississippi-avenue/12680386/

Another humpback whale washed up at the Jersey Shore over the weekend, concerning both residents and conservationists.

Climate ‘presses’ and ‘pulses’ impact Magellanic penguins

https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/01/09/presses-and-pulses/

Climate change will reshape ecosystems worldwide through two types of climate events: short-term, extreme events — like a heat wave — and long-term changes, like a shift in ocean currents. Ecologists call the short-term events “pulses,” and the long-term changes “presses.”

News Spotlight: Could seaweeds be our new big climate ally?

https://www.conservation.org/blog/news-spotlight-could-seaweed-be-our-new-big-climate-ally

Kelp forests are one of the fastest growing ecosystems on Earth — yet because they thrive out of reach of mapping satellites, scientists’ understanding of them has been stymied.

Warming oceans have decimated marine parasites- but that’s not a good thing

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-oceans-decimated-marine-parasitesbut-good.html

New research from the University of Washington shows that fish parasites plummeted from 1880 to 2019, a 140-year stretch when Puget Sound.

Winter whale watching adventures in Hawaii

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/01/09/hawaii-travel-winter-whale-watching-adventures-in-maui/

Thousands of giant humpback whales –called kohola in native Hawaiian — congregate in the shallow, warm water channels between Maui, Molokai, Kaho’lawe and Lanai after migrating thousands of miles from food-rich waters off Alaska and other regions of the north Pacific.