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The 2013-2016 marine heat wave known as “The Blob” warmed a vast expanse of surface waters across the northeastern Pacific, disrupting West Coast marine ecosystems, depressing salmon returns, and damaging commercial fisheries. It also prompted a wave of research on extreme warming of ocean surface waters.

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But, as new NOAA research shows, marine heat waves also happen deep underwater.

In a paper published in the journalNature Communications, a team led by NOAA researchers used a combination of observations and computer models to generate the first broad assessment of bottom marine heat waves in the productive continental shelf waters surrounding North America.

“Researchers have been investigating marine heat waves at the sea surface for over a decade…

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Technical Report issuedon March 17, 2023, stated that despite the geographic spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) viruses, only a small number of ‘bird flu’casesin people have been identified.

The CDCstatedallreportedhuman casessince 2022 have beenassociated withpoultry exposures.

And no bird flu cases of human-to-human transmission have been identified, says the CDC.

However, because of the potential for influenza viruses to evolve rapidly, continued sporadic human infections are anticipated.

To date, more than 6,300 people in 52 jurisdictions have been monitored since 2022, and only one human case in Colorado has been identified.

However, there has been an upsurge invarious mammalsdying from bird flu in Canada and the U.S. during 2023.

The CDC presented some good news regarding bird flu vaccines.

Bird flu has been found in five dead seals on a Cornwall beach.

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Bird-flu has now beenfound in five seal carcasseson a beach inCornwallandCornwall Wildlife Trustis urging people to stay away from all dead animals which wash up on beaches, includingseals, dolphins, porpoises, whales, and seabirds.

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Whether the victim is a wild animal or a domestic animal, trapping is cruel and inhumane. To say that it has anything to do with controlling wildlife population is a weak argument — hunters are not in charge of controlling animal populations, nor do they kill for that reason.

Preying on helpless, sentient beings for sport with torturous traps and powerful guns is just wrong.

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State Republican lawmakers are again lining up in support of a change to Montana’s Constitution that could expand existing protections for hunting and fishing and make it more difficult to regulate trapping.

The proposed constitutional amendment would change Montana’s protections for hunting and fishing from an “opportunity” to a “right,” and would include trapping as a protected right.

Versions of the bill have been introduced andgained momentum since 2017.House Bill 372mirrors a measure brought during the last Legislative Session that failed by three votes, largely along party lines.

The bill drew heated testimony in its first hearing before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. Proponents included pro-trapping groups and Montanans who said constitutional protection of trapping was necessary to…

The OBX Wave Report Dawn Patrol — Cat, Louise, and Rob — finds homes facing rising seas and crystalline barrels at Rodanthe on March 17.

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A raccoon dog looks out of its cage in a Chinese live animal market in January 2004. Raccoon dogs could have been an initial host for the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The World Health Organization is asking Chinese officials to release data that may show a link between raccoon dogs and the coronavirus. That left many wondering — what is a raccoon dog, anyway?

First, here’s why we’re talking about them. They were being sold at a seafood and meat market in Wuhan, China, where researchers found evidence of the coronavirus in January 2020. Data that was briefly posted on, and then removed from, an international databaseappeared to show that genetic material from raccoon dogsshowed up in the same swabs as the virus that causes COVID, implying the…

The lion’s death at the hands of an American big game hunter sparked international outrage.

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Cecil the lion “has not died in vain”, a minister said, as proposals to ban trophy hunting imports cleared the House of Commons.

Environment minister Trudy Harrison made the claim as the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill was given an unopposed third reading by MPs.

Clashes were expected in the Commons after Tory backbenchers Sir Bill Wiggin and Sir Christopher Chope tabled a series of amendments to the proposals, which animal rights campaigners had claimed would weaken the Bill.

But neither of the senior Tories moved their significant changes to the Bill.

The Government accepted two of their amendments aimed at establishing an advisory board on…

HB469 also marshals millions to acquire land to preserve for habitat and hunting access

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A female mountain lion after being captured by scientists in the Oquirrh Mountains in 2011.

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Gov. Spencer Cox on Friday signed a wide-ranging wildlife bill that includes controversial provisions that open a year-round hunting season on cougars in Utah and allow the use of traps to kill the stealthy predator.

The cougar provisions were never part ofHB469, sponsored by Rep. Casey Snider, R-Paradise, but were added on the legislative session’s 43rd day with no discussion or explanation other than the claim that cougar populations are rising despite significant increases in cougar deaths in recent years.

The amended bill drew rebukes from both hunting and wildlife groups, who see it…

House of Lords to rule on divisive legislation that would stop import of endangered animals’ body parts

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MPs have voted to support a controversial ban on importing hunting trophies from thousands of species into the UK, preventing British hunters from bringing the body parts of lions, elephants and giraffes into the country.

A private member’s bill put forward by the Conservative MP Henry Smith and backed by the government received the support of parliament after years of divisive debate on the issue. MPs from across the political spectrum spoke in favour of the legislation before it passed.

The government says the law, which will now move for debate in the Lords, will strengthen the conservation of endangered species and has widespread support from the British public. The ban was part…