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Jellyfish invasion map chart how planet's oceans overrun
2014-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Mail: Jellyfish blooms around the world are on the rise. Recent warm weather and global warming have both been linked with an increase in sightings as well reports of giant jellyfish reaching the shores in the UK. To accurately plot this upsurge, a team of international researchers has created the Jellyfish Database Initiative, or JeDI, to track locations and predict the future spread. The Jellyfish Database Initiative, or JeDI, pictured, plots the location of jellyfish globally. It is the first...
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Researchers may be able to predict deadly jellyfish blooms
2014-05-14 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The key to predicting the presence of tiny, venomous and nearly invisible jellyfish may be blowing in the wind, new research finds. The discovery, linking the appearance of teeny-tiny jellies off the coast of Australia with wind patterns, could lead to a way to prevent stings, researchers reported May 13 in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Closing beaches 31 percent of the time, when winds are inauspicious, could reduce the number of stings by more than 61 percent, they wrote. The...
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Forecast for deadly jellyfish blooms
2014-05-14 03:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The sudden arrival of huge blooms of box jellyfish can now be predicted, a study suggests. Researchers from Australia say that monitoring changes in ocean winds can help to establish where and when Irukandji jellyfish will strike. The study is published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Lead author Lisa-Ann Gershwin said: "They travel in very, very large numbers. It's not uncommon to have dozens of stings on a beach in a day. "The jellyfish bodies and tentacles are invisible...
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Australia: Jellyfish winning fight for food - against humans
2013-11-24 14:38:02| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: When it comes to jellyfish on Australian beaches, getting stung may be the least of our worries. Earlier this year, Whyalla faced a wipe-out unrelated to the predicted effects of the carbon tax when a massive jellyfish bloom threatened local fisheries and ecosystems. Last month, the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in Sweden shut down a reactor after jellyfish clogged its seawater pipes, the latest in a series of similar incidents. Wreaking havoc: Sweden's Oskarshamn nuclear plant shut down a reactor...
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India: Jellyfish proliferating along Kerala coast
2013-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindu: Jellyfish population is abounding along the Kerala coast, threatening other species and creating havoc for fishing operations. Scientists studying the phenomenon feel that the proliferation of the species indicates the impact of human activities on the marine environment. In the latest incident, a large number of dead jellyfish were washed ashore on the Thumba beach in Thiruvananthapuram in the last week of October. "Mass mortality of jellyfish and fouling of beaches are becoming more frequent,"...
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