Canada: More than a billion seashore animals may have cooked to death in B.C. heat wave: researcher

[marmar]

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(CBC News) Chris Harley walked onto Vancouver's Kitsilano Beach in late June and smelled death.

Carpeting the sea rocks were tens of thousands of mussels, clams, sea stars and snails, emitting a putrid odour that hung thick in the heat.

"I was pretty stunned," he said.

Harley, a marine biologist at the University of British Columbia, now estimates that last week's record-breaking heat wave in B.C. may have killed more than one billion seashore animals living along the Salish Sea coastline.

The findings shine a light on the seismic effects of the heat wave, which has already been linked to hundreds of human deaths as the ecological toll continues to unravel. .........(more)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/intertidal-animals-ubc-research-1.6090774

[Carlitos Brigante]

1. I've just run out of things to say..... nt

[FalloutShelter]

2. My God that's horrific.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. The canary in the coal mine fried.

Poor thing burst into flames.

[liberalmuse]

4. This is beyond tragic.

It’s one thing to destroy your own species out of greed, but to also destroy countless others is monstrous. The earth and all her beauty and diverse creatures are really our only true wealth and they are irreplaceable.

The leaves are dropping off some of the trees here. The tree I love in my back yard dropped thousands of leaves overnight. The heatwave last week is still taking its toll.

[Submariner]

5. This is just a warm up to the coming big mega-fauna die offs

the warmer waters and over fishing of the eastern Pacific Ocean is already resulting in underweight whales that are increasingly emaciated year to year. I hope everyone is enjoying their daily Krill Oil Omega-3 capsule at the expense of the lives of whales.

After traveling south to give birth, the then weak and hungry adult whale begins the long slow swim to the cold water feeding grounds of the Arctic with their calf. However, they are increasingly being intercepted by Orcas that find gray whale calves easy for the taking, since many of the fish the Orca used to feed on are gone from over fishing.

That's very sad since it makes that whale cow's swim of thousands of miles, a waste of f*cking time. In the decades to come, that marine biologist will be really stunned observing all the dead starved whales washing up on the beaches until they are all gone in a century or so.

[Bluepinky]

6. So sad. I hate to read about things like this.

Humans have been terrible stewards of the environment. When we all die off and the earth recovers, after many millions of years, I hope a wiser, more benevolent species inherits the earth.