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According to Climate Central News, “It’s been 45 years since the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, and since that time, average temperatures have been rising across the U.S. This Climate Central interactive graphic shows a state-by-state analysis of those temperature trends.” “Average temperatures across most of the continental U.S. have been rising gradually for more than a century, at a rate of about 0.13°F...

The following are extracts from a press release by Lifewatch.be: Over 1,000 new-to-science marine fish species have been described since 2008 – an average of more than 10 per month – according to scientists completing a consolidated inventory of all known ocean life. Among fish species newly-described worldwide are 122 new sharks and rays, 131 new members of the goby family, and a new barracuda found in the Mediterranean....

These jellyfish have no means of locomotion apart from their sails, so they are at the mercy of prevailing winds and, consequently, subject to mass-strandings on beaches throughout the world. For example, most years in the spring, there is a mass stranding that occurs along the West Coast of North America, from British Columbia to California, beginning in the north and moving south over several weeks’ time. In some years, so...