Likely culprit found for recent gray whale die-off: declines in sea ice cover that lead to a dearth of the crustaceans that gray whales love to eat.
Likely culprit found for recent gray whale die-off: declines in sea ice cover that lead to a dearth of the crustaceans that gray whales love to eat.
Over the past four years, hundreds of gray whales have washed up dead on the beaches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada – and scientists have been trying to figure out what’s causing the majestic animals to die en masse for so many years. Now, researchers from Oregon State University have an answer.
The paper is here
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Gonna be a lot of discoveries like this in the coming years. What a fucking tragedy we’ve made of everything.
It’s not “we.” I don’t control food chain issues, I don’t control pollution and production regulations or war, I don’t get huge dividends from investments whenever a company decides to do the economic thing instead of the ecologically responsible thing. They do it to US. Don’t forget that.
Hey, you buy stuff and didn't recycle every single thing you ever bought (even though most recycling ends up in a landfill anyway) so it's your fault.
I’m literally Satan
@Jimbabwe yeah, I'm not really enjoying my ringside seat to the destruction and death of a planet. It's going to get much worse.