A Severe Marine Heat Wave Nicknamed ‘The Blob’ Has Finally Been Explained
The summer that the ocean fell silent stays with Mike Reid.
“It looked like a dead zone. There were no birds, no seals, no otters. When you looked into the water column, there was no urchin, there was no [sea] cucumber, no fish swimming about.”
Mr. Reid, the aquatics manager for the Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department in Bella Bella, B.C., was seeing the impact of an abnormally warm mass of water that clung to the Pacific coast from 2014 to 2016. Nicknamed “the Blob...
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