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They are gelatinous, pulsating, tentacled, and sometimes deadly. And they seem to be appearing in ever-increasing swarms across the oceans of the world. More »
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Look I know it's horrifying that this past July saw the further disintegration of Greenland's enormous, floating Petermann Glacier, with about 11 square miles of ice crumbling off. In fact, new satellite images show that right now the entire glacier is literally breaking in half, thus speeding up the general trend towards an iceless Arctic Ocean, rising waters, and accelerated climate change. But you have to admit that there's a terrible beauty in seeing 60-square-mile hunks of ice cracking open. Below, an animation shows the crack widening. More »
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Last year, roaming mega-packs of jellyfish wiped out an entire Irish salmon farm stocked with 100,000 fish and forced the closures of several beaches in the U.K. In some areas, jellyfish have become so populous that they've taken over: 90 percent of the Black Sea's fauna are jellyfish (pictured). Of course climate change and overfishing are the cause. Warmer waters plus the elimination of the jellyfish's natural predators allow the delicate, stinging creatures to reproduce in unprecedented numbers. At least the Welsh and Irish are doing something about it. More »
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