Sentences with phrase «marine heat wave off»

SWELTERING STRANDS In 2011, a marine heat wave off Australia's southern coast devastated the towering kelp forests of the Great Southern Reef (shown).

One paper found that a 2016 marine heat wave off the coast of Alaska was unprecedented in terms of the temperatures it reached and concluded that it would not have been possible in a world where human - caused climate change was not occurring.

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Ocean conditions off most of the U.S. West Coast are returning roughly to average, after an extreme marine heat wave from about 2014 to 2016 disrupted the California Current Ecosystem and shifted many species beyond their traditional range, according to a new report from NOAA Fisheries» two marine laboratories on the West Coast.