Predators are growing hungrier in the rapidly heating seas

Photo caption: Tiger sharks are spreading to new territory as the oceans warm. Photo credit: Gregory Sweeney / Getty Images. Article by Niranjana Rajalakshmi. Mashable – June 18, 2022.

A warming planet means a warming ocean. The seas soak up over 90 percent of the heat humanity traps on Earth. Last year, ocean warming reached a record high. These soaring marine temperatures have a multitude of problematic impacts, the likes of rising sea levels, destabilized Antarctic glaciers, and disrupted marine ecosystems. And as David Attenborough’s documentary Our Planet vividly captures, warmer oceans strip the algae off coral reefs, bleaching them. […]

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