Not exactly on top of the news, but still important: There was/is a starfish mass extinction event going on since 2013, with starfishes seemingly “dissolving”. Now researchers have found a likely explanation: microbial activity under conditions of overfertilization. It wouldn’t be the first case of fertilizer runoff causing terrifying events. I hope everybody remembers the toxic algea bloom off the coast of Florida.
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Barg (2021, Jan. 31). Julian Barg: Starfish extinction event. Retrieved from https://www.jbarg.net/posts/2021-01-31-starfish-extinction-event/
BibTeX citation
@misc{barg2021starfish,
author = {Barg, Julian},
title = {Julian Barg: Starfish extinction event},
url = {https://www.jbarg.net/posts/2021-01-31-starfish-extinction-event/},
year = {2021}
}