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Warming Waters Linked to Northeast Seagrass Die-offs
2016-01-27 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Since Paula and Len Boutin moved into their house on Massachusetts's Weweantic River more than a decade ago, they've ambled down to their dock to sample and test the water hundreds of times. "We just feel we're helping out the environment,' Len said. The river drains into Buzzards Bay, where eelgrass holds sand in place on bay floors and shelters young finfish, scallop larvae and other wildlife. But the eelgrass is wasting away -- and new analysis of two decades of summertime monitoring by the...
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