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Sea life may downsize with ocean warming
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Sea life may downsize with ocean warming — bringing challenging impacts

A new model predicts that marine microbes could shrink by up to 30% in the future due to climate change, impacting bigger organisms that eat them including fish, potentially disrupting the food chain from the bottom up.

nitrogen-fixing bacteria

You have no idea how much you need nitrogen-fixing bacteria

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria are a crucial, if largely unknown, part of our ecosystem. They're how plants and animals get nitrogen from the air.
osprey decline leaves Montana  biologists wary
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Canaries in the copper mine: Upper Clark Fork osprey decline leaves biologists wary

On July 8, three osprey chicks were abducted from their Warm Springs Pond nest by the Montana Osprey Project.
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Will different salmon species adapt to climate
www.hakaimagazine.com

Survivor: Salmon Edition

Will different salmon species adapt before the climate votes them off the island?
toxics remain with plastic recycling
www.nationalobserver.com

Plastic recycling could be more dangerous than you think

Efforts to end plastic pollution with recycling could leave people — and the environment — laden with poisonous chemicals, a new study has found. 
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Climate-change dooming polar bears
www.cbc.ca

'Grim work': Climate-change clock ticking on world's polar bears

The climate-change clock is ticking on the world's polar bears and a group of Canadian and U.S. scientists say they've determined when that time will run out.
Skinny whales
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Skinny whales

The mystery behind emaciated ‘zombie whales’ stranding on the West Coast in 2019 is still unsolved, and there are troubling signs for 2020.
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