More than a billion seashore animals may have cooked to death in B.C. heat wave, says UBC researcher
A marine biologist at the University of British Columbia estimates that last week s record-breaking heat wave in B.C. may have killed more than one billion intertidal animals living along the Salish Sea coastline.
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Shoreline temps above 50 C and low tides led to mass deaths of animals like mussels, clams, sea stars
Posted: Jul 05, 2021 4:36 PM PT | Last Updated: July 5
Dead mussels are seen along the shoreline of Third Beach in Vancouver on June 27, in the middle of B.C. s record-breaking heat wave.(Chris Harley/University of British Columbia)