Environmental activists demand investigation into whale deaths at the Jershey Shore
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.
