Unusually Warm oceans can have widespread effects on Marine ecosystems. Warm patches off the Pacific Northwest from 2013 to 2015, and a couple of years earlier in the Atlantic Ocean, affected everything from sea lions to fish migration routes to coastal weather. The “warm blob” off the Pacific Northwest coast in April 2014, as shown in the  July 2014 newsletter where it got its evocative name. The new study shows this...

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