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Increasingly Frequent Ocean Heat Waves Trigger Mass Die-Offs of Sealife, and Grief in Marine Scientists<\/a><\/h3>\n

Heat waves recently extended across nearly 30 percent of the world\u2019s oceans, an expanse equivalent to the surface area of North America, Asia, Europe and Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Marine biologist Anne Hoggett records bleached and dead coral around Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia on April 5. Credit: David Gray\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Over the past several years, the temperature of the Earth\u2019s oceans have been spiking high enough to trigger\u00a0numerous die-offs of marine species<\/a>, killing millions of corals, fish, mammals, birds and plants. Those mass die-offs also have sent\u00a0a wave of emotional trauma<\/a>\u00a0washing over some researchers watching their life\u2019s work vanish before their eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talk a lot about eco grief, that sense of being overwhelmed and feeling loss,\u201d said\u00a0Jennifer Lavers<\/a>, who has been tracking how thousands of seabirds have starved to death during recent ocean heat waves off the coast of western Australia as coordinator of the nonprofit marine research\u00a0Adrift Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Right now the extreme ocean heat in her region is waning, but globally, marine heat wave conditions extend across nearly 30 percent of the planet\u2019s oceans, a surface area equivalent to all of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The harms of long-term gradual ocean warming are\u00a0well documented<\/a>, but Lavers said the most recent studies show that increasingly frequent pulses of extreme heat are doing the most damage to marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n

With even more mass die-offs of ocean species\u00a0projected<\/a>, \u201cscientists are leaving in droves from the field,\u201d she said. \u201cIncredibly skilled, talented, qualified, very passionate people are leaving because no matter what they say, what they do, how many papers they publish \u2026 It doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Increasingly Frequent Ocean Heat Waves Trigger Mass Die-Offs of Sealife, and Grief in Marine Scientists Heat waves recently extended across nearly 30 percent of the world\u2019s oceans, an expanse equivalent to the surface area of North America, Asia, Europe and Africa. Marine biologist Anne Hoggett records bleached and dead coral around Lizard Island on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30935,3199,3288,30936],"class_list":["post-67890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bob-berwyn","tag-die-off","tag-heatwave","tag-inside-climate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67891,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67890\/revisions\/67891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}