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21% of the ocean is getting darker?!and 9% of it, a region the size of the ENTIRE content of Africa, has lost 50/200 meters of its life-bearing photic zone where 90% of marine life lives? :0 because of algal blooms? Fascinating! Had fun with this one!! Post your scicomm vids in the /science channel all!! :)

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Yeah this has been happening in estuaries for decades. I watched the Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem change dramatically due to pollutants in runoff from agricultural fertilizers and other soaps & pollutants. In the 80s and 90s the crab catches dried up a lot. (yup, algal blooms) And the island where I went to study the Chesapeake was so subject to rising water that it became unsafe; in the mid 2000s, the learning center had to close for good.

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I’m learning seagrass does so much. There’s a reason I’m doing a project to maybe help scale up the restoration efforts, but idk, not ready to really drop out (again) and also I’m loving making these videos way more than building the darn robot, and there’s > flexibility

That's impactful for the species who depend on the seagrass for cover and protection from predators. It's just bad news all around.

NO WAY a) that’s awful, b) I just talked with a seagrass ecologist doing restoration there, and he said a paper just came out saying by 2050, there won’t be any seagrass left🥺🥺🥺🥺