Growing numbers of whales, sea lions, and seals are being found stranded or dead, alarming oceanic experts
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.—First, the Dungeness crabs were poisoned. Then gray whales started turning up dead. Most recently, record numbers of Guadalupe fur seals and California sea lions are washing up starving and sick.
The West Coast this year has seen an unusually high number of marine animal deaths, sending scientists scrambling to understand why. The leading theories all have one factor in common: warming waters caused by climate change.
“These animals are really indicator species for ocean health, they’re the ones that are showing us right here from shore that there’s something wrong out there,” said Shawn Johnson, director of veterinary sciences at the Marine Mammal Center.
Dr. Johnson spoke…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Overpopulation is responsible for a number of ills – anthropogenic climate change, interminable lines, too much traffic, and this. At least now, articles are writing that humans may be a little bit responsible for it, and not blaming wildlife entirely:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/theres-poop-in-the-water-at-americas-dirtiest-beaches-is-yours-on-the-list/ar-AAEJyTB?li=BBnb7Kz