Are jellyfish blooms biologically detrimental?
"Jellyfish are consuming more or less everything that's present in the food web," said Robert Condon, a Virginia Institute of Marine Science and co-author of a jellyfish-impact study published on 7 June in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "They're eating a lot of the food web, and turning it into gelatinous biomass. They're essentially stealing a lot of the energy, then putting it away."
Read the June 2011 Wired UK story by Brandon Keim here.
"[Condon] adds that a host of factors, including climate change, over-harvesting of fish, fertilizer runoff and habitat modifications could help to fuel jellyfish blooms into the future."
Read the June 2011 National Science Foundation story here.
Read the June 2011 Wired UK story by Brandon Keim here.
"[Condon] adds that a host of factors, including climate change, over-harvesting of fish, fertilizer runoff and habitat modifications could help to fuel jellyfish blooms into the future."
Read the June 2011 National Science Foundation story here.
An unlikely thwart to nuclear power.
"An invasion of jellyfish into a cooling water pool at a Scottish nuclear power plant kept its nuclear reactors offline... Scientists say jellyfish obstructing nuclear plants is a rare occurrence in Britain, though it has happened more often in other countries such as Japan."
Read the June 2011 Thomson Reuters story here.
"...there have been dozens of cases of jellyfish causing partial or complete shutdowns of coastal power plants in the past few decades, as well as shutdowns of desalination plants. Steve Haddock of the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute said a power plant in Australia was shut down by jellyfish as long ago as 1937."
Read the July 2011 MSNBC story by Natalie Wolchover here.
Read the June 2011 Thomson Reuters story here.
"...there have been dozens of cases of jellyfish causing partial or complete shutdowns of coastal power plants in the past few decades, as well as shutdowns of desalination plants. Steve Haddock of the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute said a power plant in Australia was shut down by jellyfish as long ago as 1937."
Read the July 2011 MSNBC story by Natalie Wolchover here.