More than a billion seashore animals may have been cooked to death during Canada’s deadly heatwave, a marine biologist has said.

Millions of clams, mussels, sea stars and other creatures are thought to have been killed amid soaring temperatures in Canada

Christopher Harley, professor of zoology at the University of British Columbia, discovered thousands of dead mussels, clams, sea stars and snails along the Salish Sea coastline and calculated that there are likely millions more across the country.

Temperatures in western Canada soared to record highs in late June and early July, sparking wildfires and killing hundreds of people, primarily in British Columbia.

Harley’s team recorded temperatures above 50C at certain points amid the animals’ habitats along the coast using infrared cameras, which proved disastrous for the creatures.

The team, made up of student researchers, canvassed multiple coastlines including those in West Vancouver and on the Sunshine Coast, helping Harley to calculate the scale of the wipe out.

CandyOps:
How come Yankee has wildfires as a result oh high temperature but not W. Africa which is right at the equator?

vedaxcool:


Trees here are built to withstand heat trees over there don't have such capabilities.

CandyOps:


Ok. So Sun go hammer them so tey bush go catch fire abi na bush meat hunters dey set am able ablaze? because northern Nigeria don't have much evergreen trees yet the only fire wey de catch there na B.haram fire?

Dmavin:
OMo see food

Gospelpreacher1:


https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/seashore-animals-death-heatwave-canada-b1878937.html?amp

Mode4:


In biology, we make use of sampling technigues to determine the population of living things. Sampling technigues make counting or population studies easier because we can we can take a representative fraction "sample" within a square meter then do
an extrapolation of the entire surface area. I hope you understand??

Clerverly:
See meat Just add enough pepper and scent leaf..

alphaNomega:
These extreme climate changes are as a result of the earth's orbit and axial tilt, something we have little to no control over.

Hammyaladin:
it's human carelessness. Ozonelayer depletion!!

Omo see mention!

I said sin is also a factor!

For instance using the story of Noah as a custody! It wasn't the people blocking the drainage system that caused the flood it was their sin!

And you cannot deny the fact that, that happened on Earth!

Our sins are too much! God is just being merciful else what befell Noah's generation\Sodom and Gomorrah long ago would have befall earth!

I believe these occurrence are just warnings just like God sent Jonah to Nineveh

The people of Nineveh repented and was spared!

Will we be as wise as the people of Nineveh