Sea life in the Pacific Ocean is dying off at an alarming rate, and
the peak of all this death and destruction coincides with a certain
nuclear disaster that ironically occurred on the Pacific coast of Japan.
Still, scientists analyzing what’s referred to as “sea snot” point
their finger at global warming, refusing to even mention the radiation
from Fukushima. Normally, this snot covers about 1% of the floor. Now, it seems to be covering about 98% of it.
According to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
life at the sea floor 145 miles out from the California coast has been
analyzed for a total of 24 years now. There, the researchers measure the
amount of ‘sea snot’ on the ocean floor. Sea snot is the highly
technical term they use to describe dead sea life including fish,
plankton, feces, and other organic oceanic matter. As mentioned, this snot covers about 1% of the floor, but now it seems to be covering about 98% of it.
“In the 24 years of this study, the past two years have been the biggest amounts of this detritus by far,” said marine biologist Christine Huffard, who works at the research station off of California. Multiple other stations throughout the Pacific have seen similarly alarming increases.
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