November 19, 2020 By Alastair Bland Hakai Magazine
Hundreds of sea turtles and marine mammals have been choked, snared, and hooked by plastic debris.
Tabulating the Victims of Plastic Pollution
Huge Dam Demolition Could Save Salmon on the Edge of Extinction
November 18, 2020 By Alexandra Borunda National Geographic
Spring-run Chinook salmon, critical to Indigenous fishers along the Klamath River, are in steep decline. But two recent developments may offer a path to their recovery.
Prairies of the Sea
November 18, 2020 By Katherine Harmon Courage Smithsonian Magazine
A vast, mostly invisible ecosystem shapes life on Earth, from the food we eat to the air we breathe. And the more scientists learn, the more they say it’s in trouble.
Seas Are Rising Faster Than Ever
November 18, 2020 By Paul Voosen Science Magazine
Ask climate scientists how fast the world’s oceans are creeping upward, and many will say 3.2 millimeters per year—a figure enshrined in the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, from 2014. But the number, based on satellite measurements taken since the early 1990s, is a long-term average. In fact, the global rate varied so much over that period that it was hard to say whether it was holding steady or accelerating.
The Rising Tide Underfoot
November 17, 2020 By Grace Mitchell Tada Hakai Magazine
Changing sea levels are pushing groundwater into new and problematic places.