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Gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast. The reason is alarming

How Melting Sea Ice Is Starving Whales

Gray whales are mostly bottom-feeders, scooping up mouthfuls of sediment and invertebrates as they swim along the seafloor. They trap shrimplike amphipods and filter out the muck through baleen plates attached to their upper jaws⁠, leaving wallows and billows of mud—a nutrient feast for other organisms—in their wake. This buffet is intricately linked to the Arctic sea ice and the algae that grows beneath it.

When the algae die, they fall through the water column to the seafloor, where they feed the crustaceans that gray whales eat. But with Arctic temperatures skyrocketing, the sea ice is melting earlier and faster, disrupting the food web the whales rely on.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gray-whales-are-washing-up-dead-on-the-west-coast-the-reason-is-alarming/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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An ectopic pregnancy is not viable and we should stop pretending it is. Abortions save women’s lives, denying them creates situations where women die.

@h4890 @kibcol1049 lol. So, the UK Navy would, somehow, get a mandate to execute people assumed to be illegally trying to enter the UK. Effectively transforming immigration into a capital crime. No trial required. No burden of proof. And does that mean that the death penalty has been reinstated in the UK?