- Disfiguring Seafood Diseases. They don’t know what causes the dread ‘ugly lobster disease’ (which is actually called ugly lobster syndrome or black spot disease, if you can believe that), but at least they know it doesn’t harm the meat. Phew. (AP: “Baffling Disease Makes Lobsters Look Ugly” by Jay Lindsay [May 25, 2004]; CBC: “Lobster shell disease baffles scientists” [May 31, 2004])
- Rising water, sinking islands:
“Prevailing winds, tidal peculiarities and other factors can make sea levels vary from place to place. Here at Funafuti, capital of a mini-nation [ed: Tuvalu] midway between Hawaii and Australia, the gauges have shown the sea rising 5 to 6 millimeters a year since 1993, meteorologist Vavae said.
“But some islands also are subsiding, sinking under their own weight. ‘In many islands, I think the answer is that both are happening—subsidence and rising levels,’ said University of Hawaii oceanographer Roger Lukas.”
(AP: “Climate Change Rises on Global Agenda” by Charles Hanley [May 22, 2004])
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Posted by Ben on June 8, 2004
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