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Chesapeake waters are warming, study finds, posing challenges for healing ailing bay
2015-10-14 15:05:23| Paper - Topix.net
The Chesapeake Bay's waters are warming up, in some places rising more rapidly even than the region's air temperatures, a new University of Maryland study finds. If unchecked, scientists say the trend could complicate costly, long-running efforts to restore the ailing estuary, worsen fish-suffocating dead zones and even alter the food web on which the bay's fish and crabs depend.
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