Wednesday 19 February 2020

Musseling Out

A low tide and unusually hot conditions have reportedly resulted in whole beds of mussels being cooked to death in their shells on beaches in New Zealand (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/18/hundreds-of-thousands-of-mussels-cooked-to-death-on-new-zealand-beach-in-heatwave).A similar event happened in California in 2019. It appears that this will happen more commonly with climate change.

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