Scientists have more evidence to explain why billions of crabs vanished around Alaska. It wasn’t overfishing, scientists explained — it was likely the shockingly warm water that sent the crabs’ metabolism into overdrive and starved them to death.

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1. So – no more crabs?

2. Oh boy! Ecological collapse! /s

3. And this is why global warming is bad.

4. Here’s from April 25 2024
   https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/podcast/what-happened-all-alaska-snow-crabs

5. Are ocean acidification levels dissolving snow crab mechanoreceptors like they are dissolving dungeness crab joints?
   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969720301200

   (Ocean acidification is caused by carbonic acid btw – levels increase due to too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere)

6. Oh well that’s so much better. /s

7. And this is… better?