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The record-breaking heatwave in the month of June has cooked to death more than one billion sea creatures on Canada’s western coast.
According to the reports, the heatwave reached over 100 degrees Fahrenheit hit the west coast in late June, and killed animals that include mussels and rockweed in places that are around 100-kilo meters apart.
Experts were surprised by the ever seen ‘Maritime massacre’ in the region. Similarly, at the Galiano Island off the mainland of British Columbia, about one million mussels died in an area that is about a tennis court in size. In another area, about one kilometer in size turned a graveyard to the 100 million Barnacles.
Christopher Harley, a professor at the University of British Columbia has warned that the maritime ecosystem of this region may collapse.
He also said that his students and he have recorded dead animals on the beaches that are spread in hundreds of kilometers of shoreline. Part of British Columbia coast may turn like hot parts of the Honk Kong and the world and many intertidal species die-off every single summer’ he quoted.
