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Migrating whales and plankton from the Arctic to Israel
"The implications are enormous. It has crossed a threshold," said Philip C. Reid, Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Sciences in Plymouth, England
AMSTERDAM .- When a gray whale was spotted last year against the Israeli town of Herzliya, scientists came to a startling conclusion: it should have been moved from the icy path up in Canada, where the warm climate channel opened briefly three years earlier.
At microscopic level, the scientists also found plankton in the North Atlantic where none had existed for at least 800 thousand years.
The Odyssey Whale 13 meters (43 feet) long and the surprise appearance of plankton indicate a migration of species through the Northwest Passage, a troubling sign of the impact of global warming on animals and plants in the oceans and on earth.
"The implications are enormous. It has crossed a threshold," said Philip C. Reid, Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Sciences in Plymouth, England.
"This is a sign of the speed of changes that are happening in our world due to climate change," he said in a telephone interview.
Spanish to English translation
Migrating whales and plankton from the Arctic to Israel
"The implications are enormous. It has crossed a threshold," said Philip C. Reid, Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Sciences in Plymouth, England
AMSTERDAM .- When a gray whale was spotted last year against the Israeli town of Herzliya, scientists came to a startling conclusion: it should have been moved from the icy path up in Canada, where the warm climate channel opened briefly three years earlier.
At microscopic level, the scientists also found plankton in the North Atlantic where none had existed for at least 800 thousand years.
The Odyssey Whale 13 meters (43 feet) long and the surprise appearance of plankton indicate a migration of species through the Northwest Passage, a troubling sign of the impact of global warming on animals and plants in the oceans and on earth.
"The implications are enormous. It has crossed a threshold," said Philip C. Reid, Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Sciences in Plymouth, England.
"This is a sign of the speed of changes that are happening in our world due to climate change," he said in a telephone interview.