#seasponges — Public Fediverse posts

…By examining the chemical composition of their (#SeaSponges’) skeletons, which the creatures built up steadily over centuries, the researchers have pieced together a new history of those earliest decades of #warming. And it points to a startling conclusion: #Humans have raised #GlobalTemperatures by a total of about 1.7°C, or 3.1°F, not 1.2°C, the most commonly used value.

#sclerosponge #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/climate/global-warming-sponges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

#Scientists raise alarm as #bacteria are linked to #massdeath of #seasponges weakened by #warming #Mediterranean

https://blog.frontiersin.org/2023/12/01/frontiers-microbiology-mass-mortality-sea-sponges-aegean-vibrio-bacteria/?amp;utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=frontiers-microbiology-mass-mortality-sea-sponges-aegean-vibrio-bacteria

1-Dec-2023
Scientists raise alarm as bacteria are linked to mass death of #SeaSponges weakened by warming #Mediterranean

#Vibrio bacteria are important for novel disease in sponges recorded by Aristotle

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009200

#science #ecology #ClimateCatastrophe #environment #MarineBiology

Small #dungeness #crab moving towards a hiding spot, amongst an #aquatic garden full of #plumose #SeaAnemones #SeaSponges 🦀

#ShawOceanDiscoveryCentre #SidneyBC #aquarium #SeaCreatures #UnderTheSea #sealife #MarineBiology #crustacean #SalishSea #MarineLife #ocean #biodiversity #EducationCentre #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #BritishColumbia #Canada #PacificOcean