The Blob by Hakai Magazine

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• In Alaska, one of the longest-running and most comprehensive seabird monitoring projects is equal parts tedium, adventure, truth, and beauty.

  

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  Keeping Watch Over Seabirds at the World’s Edge

  Hakai Magazine - Sarah Gilman, Nathaniel Wilder

  In Alaska, one of the longest-running and most comprehensive seabird monitoring projects is equal parts tedium, adventure, truth, and beauty. “We are …

• As marine heatwaves become more common and intense, better forecasting may help us reduce the damage.

  

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  Ocean Forecast: Blobs on the Horizon

  Hakai Magazine - by Jen Monnier

  As marine heatwaves become more common and intense, better forecasting may help us reduce the damage. In the summer of 2015, Laurie Weitkamp was …

• Waters are warming faster than the global average.

  

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  How the Blob Is Warming British Columbia’s Fjords

  Hakai Magazine - Nicola Jones

  Waters are warming faster than the global average. For those who have braved swimming in British Columbia’s spectacular, glacier-fed fjords, “warm” is …

• The sooty pollutant spurs the development of more powerful El Niños, to potentially devastating effect.

  

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  Black Carbon Is Supercharging El Niño

  Hakai Magazine - Michael Allen

  The sooty pollutant spurs the development of more powerful El Niños, to potentially devastating effect. Black carbon is a dangerous, sooty material …

• From California to Alaska, animals born during the infamous Blob are coming of age.

  

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  The Legacy of the Blob

  Hakai Magazine - Gloria Dickie

  From California to Alaska, animals born during the infamous Blob are coming of age. In 2013, a mass of unusually warm water appeared in the Gulf of …

• For the Cassin’s auklet, the death toll was over 9,000.

  

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  How the Blob Killed Thousands of Tiny Seabirds

  Hakai Magazine - Dustin Patar

  For the Cassin’s auklet, the death toll was over 9,000. The Blob also constricted the birds’ hunting grounds. Typically, Cassin’s auklets will fly as …