Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon Rio de Janeiro host to several events during the 2016 Olympic's is now hosting 13 tons of dead fish caused by heat
Residents of a high-end neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro woke up to the unpleasant smell of 13 tons of rotting dead fish floating in the city's Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon.
Biologists believe that the extreme heat caused by El Nino killed the fish overnight and caused them to wash ashore Friday.
The lagoon played host to several events during the 2016 Olympic games and is a tourist attraction. Rio's environment ministry released a statement saying that it has been on alert since Thursday morning when oxygen levels in the body of water began to fall sharply.
"This is our Deep Water Horizon!" An incredible 408 marine life die-offs almost one every day since July 2016 is the biggest marine disaster in Florida's history
The University Of Aberdeen has issued the latest depressing news of a catastrophic die-off: 70% decline of world population for seabirds since 1970
The University Of Aberdeen has issued the latest depressing news of a catastrophic die-off, this time the unfortunate species is the world's seabirds.
Due to overfishing, habitat destruction and pollution, populations have dropped by an incredible 70% since the 1970s, (can you imagine if the worlds human population fell by 70% in just 50 years?)
Scientists compared two time periods – 1970 to 1989 and 1990 to 2010 – to assess the degree of competition seabirds faced for prey species such as anchovy, mackerel and squid.
It's probably the most depressing Christmas story of 2018: reindeer and caribou herds have declined by 56 per cent! A loss of more than 2.6 million
Sent in by Dr Carol Rosin
It's probably the most depressing Christmas story of 2018.
They are one of the most important animals in the already fragile Arctic ecosystem, the magnificent reindeer, or caribou and according to a new report is the latest animal to decline.
According to a report by NOAA, Despite an increase of vegetation available for grazing, herd populations of caribou and wild reindeer across the Arctic tundra have declined by nearly 50% over the last two decades.
The populations of reindeer, a.k.a. caribou, near the North Pole, has been declining dramatically in recent years.
Since the mid-1990s, the size of reindeer and caribou herds has declined by 56 per cent.
That’s an incredible drop from an estimated 4.7 million animals to 2.1 million, a loss of 2.6 million.
"The smell has permeated everything!" Thousands of bats fall from the sky dead into woman's garden after 40 deg C heatwave in Australia
Photo Lisa Eagleton
A terrified mum fled her home in Queensland, Australia, after thousands of bats fell from the sky in her garden due to the recent heatwave with temperatures reaching above 40°C over several days.
Dozens of families in and around the city of Cairns, in Australia, have been forced to temporarily abandon their homes after flying foxes started dropping dead on their properties due to the unbearable heat.
Philippa Schoor found the dead bats outside her front door, and said the dead creatures were filled with maggots when she found them in her front garden.
Another 28 whales died 500km east of Melbourne bringing the total to 242 around the coast of New Zealand and eastern Australia in one week
DELWP crews have arrived at the remote location to investigate the stranding.
Twenty-eight whales have died after a mass beaching event on a remote part of the East Gippsland coast in Victoria's far east.
Twenty-seven pilot whales and one humpback whale were reported beached last week at Wingan Inlet, between Cape Conran and Mallacoota, in the Croajingolong National Park, about 500km east of Melbourne.
It brings the total of whale deaths around the coast of New Zealand and eastern Australia to 242 in just one week.
Another 51 pilot whales have died bringing the total to more than 200 deaths in just 5 days in separate incidents in New Zealand
Another fifty-one pilot whales have died after becoming stranded on a beach on the Chatham Islands off New Zealand.
The tragedy comes after more than 200 whales have died in separate incidents in New Zealand in the last five days.
According to the BBC, between 80 and 90 whales were found to have become stranded in Hanson Bay on Thursday.
Several dozen managed to refloat themselves but 50 were found dead and one had to be put down.
The deaths there come less than a week after 145 pilot whales were found dead on a remote beach in New Zealand's far south Stewart Island.
More misery for Florida: An alarming number of dolphins a washing ashore along southwest Florida beaches in recent days
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More problems for Florida marine life as an alarming number of dead dolphins have washed ashore along southwest Florida beaches, including the Tampa Bay area.
It comes after a summer of unprecedented deaths around the coast of Florida, literally millions of tons of dead marine life due to a toxic algae bloom.
And 2018 has been a record year for dolphin deaths.
NOAA says the incessant red tide bloom has been a factor in 109 recorded dolphin deaths throughout southwest Florida.
"Over the last week or so, its changed dramatically,” said Gretchen Lovewell with Mote Marine Lab.
For the third year in a row (and each year gets earlier) bats are dropping dead from trees in parts of Australia due to extreme heat
Photo Northern Star
For the third straight year, extreme heat in Australia is causing bats to fall out of trees dead in alarming numbers.
According to The Cairns Post, temperatures higher than 40 deg C, 104+ deg F, have killed hundreds of flying foxes, who just fall to the floor dead or dying from the extreme heat.
The extreme weather has been taking a toll on the Far North’s flying foxes, who are dropping by the dozen from trees — and causing a potential public health risk.
Wildlife carers say they are struggling with the overwhelming numbers of bats becoming affected by heat stress in colonies in Cairns, Edmonton, Gordonvale, and Townsville.
Another tipping point breached: Salmon have disappeared in Scotland: Not a single salmon caught during the entire season.
It used to be the best salmon fishing in the world
But now Global warming is being blamed for Scotland's worst salmon season in living memory.
Some beats on famous rivers like the Spey and the Nith recorded not a single salmon caught during the entire season.
Just two salmon were caught on the River Fyne in Argyll this year, where once more than 700 were caught each season.
The number of fish caught by anglers has been so low that some estates have stopped selling permits for once-popular beats because there is no fish to catch.
A double whale stranding in New Zealand's South Island kills almost 150 pilot whales coinciding with massive coronal activity on our sun
A total of 145 pilot whales have died after becoming stranded in a remote part of New Zealand.
A hiker found the 145 whales in two pods just over a mile apart on Stewart Island, a small island to the south of the country's South Island.
They had been half-buried in the sand and around half of them were already dead.
The rest were in very bad health and were euthanized, due to the lack of potential rescuers and the difficulty they would have faced in reaching the location.
The whales had been 22 miles from Oban, the main town on Stewart Island, which only has around 400 people.
A "once in a lifetime weather system" of "gale force winds," cold temperatures-kills hundreds of turtles off Cape Cod Friday
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Close to 200 dead sea turtles, (though the true number is not known), were found frozen off the coast of Cape Cod Friday after low temperatures stifled their ability to make it safely to shore.
The Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuary said a "once in a lifetime weather system" of "gale force winds," cold temperatures and high tide caused the migrating turtles to become "incapacitated" by the time they were found along the Massachusetts peninsula around 6 a.m. ET Friday.
"A lot of the turtles were found frozen in the water still," Mass Audubon's director Bob Prescott told NBC News.
Water crisis developing in Iraq after tens of thousands of dead carp wash up and 100,000 people hospitalized from water pollution
Iraqi fish farmers south of Baghdad have been left reeling after finding tens of thousands of dead carp mysteriously floating in their cages or washed up on the banks of the Euphrates.
Piles of the dead silvery fish, along with a few car tires and plastic bags, could be seen on Friday lying under a massive concrete bridge.
They covered the surface of deeper water nearby, providing rich pickings for birds circling above. And in the fish farms of Saddat Al Hindiyah in Babylon province, about 80 kilometres south of Baghdad, the lifeless carp floated together in large clumps.
Imagine if the human population fell by 60% Wildlife populations have declined by 67% in less than 50 years! The Living Planet Report 2018
Imagine if the human population fell by 60%.
That would be like emptying the America's, Europe, Africa, Oceania and China of people
Back in February, The Big Wobble posted a frightening warning... Tipping point breached! The monarch butterfly has a 95% decline since 1980's in North America: Two-thirds of ALL animals and insects extinct in 2 years
In just two years’ time, the World will have lost two-thirds of all wild animals.
This amazing statistic from The Living Planet Index goes on: The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.
"Tens of thousands" dead fish still washing up along Northwest Florida coastline as Hurricane Michael failed to wash away deadly red tide
Hurricane Michael didn't wash away the red tide.
Just ask Skip Miller.
A Bayshore Drive resident, Miller woke up Wednesday morning to find what he described as "tens of thousands" of small dead fish that had washed up to his dock on Choctawhatchee Bay.
He said he assumed the culprit was red tide, and that the majority of the fish were bait fish, with some catfish and redfish in the mix.
"It's going to be a major nightmare for me," Miller said.
He contacted Walton County officials, only to learn that the county has no cleanup David Demarest, the director of communications for the Walton County Tourist Development Council, said that the organization aids in the cleanup of public beaches, but those private bayfront areas were the owner's responsibility.
"The smell started making her sick" City of Naples is the latest Florida area to suffer thousands of rotting dead fish washing up (Video)
Thousands of rotting fish carcasses washed into Moorings Bay on Sunday and were still there Monday afternoon, but no one knows what killed them - or when they'll go away.
Moorings Bay is one of several areas that experienced fish kills over the weekend, Naples' Natural Resources Manager Stephanie Molloy said.
"We've had dead fish wash up on a few beaches, and then the tides and currents push them into the canals," she said. A bloom of a diatom, called Cylindrotheca, is one possible cause of the dead fish, Molloy said.
"It's complex, and we don't know the exact cause," she said.
"It could be related to the diatom. ( algae)."
“I’ve been here all my life and I’ve never seen anything like this.” Florida red tide bloom now stretches from the Gulf of Mexico to Fort Lauderdale
Red tide algae bloom has now reached Fort Lauderdale on the eastern coast of Florida, the algae bloom now stretches from Navarre beach west of Panama City in the Gulf of Mexico all the way down the west coast of Florida and around the southern tip of the panhandle to Fort Lauderdale on the eastern coast.
This summer has seen the death of millions, maybe billions of marine species from birds to fish, manatees, dolphins and turtles due to a red tide algae bloom with many experts saying they have never seen anything like it before.
The latest report comes from ABC Local News claiming hundreds of dead fish have been found washed ashore Fort Lauderdale Beach, leaving officials to believe that toxic red tide algae has made its first appearance in Broward County.
It is astonishing, jaw-dropping! THOUSANDS OF TONS (MILLIONS MAYBE BILLIONS) of Marine species dead along the entire Florida west coast since May
It is astonishing, jaw-dropping even, it should be world news or at least national news but the fact is since May this year the entire west coast of Florida, from Navarre Beach in the north all the way down to Collier County in the south has witnessed the death of millions, maybe billions of marine species from birds to fish, manatees, dolphins and turtles due to a red tide algae bloom and it only made local news.
Below is a list of die-offs, (with links attached) along the entire west coast of Florida since May, the list is frightening.
It started off slowly...And then exploded.
Hundreds of penguins have died in recent weeks on the beaches of Paraná along the east coast of Brazil reason unknown
Photo credit "Divulgação/CEM"
Translated from Portuguese
"Hundreds of penguins and two dolphins have died in recent weeks in Paraná on the east coast of Brazil.
Experts claimed that more than 400 penguins have died on the beaches of Matinhos, Guaratuba and Pontal do Paraná in the last two weeks "
According to the biologist Camila Domit, of the Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Mammals and Marine Reptiles of the Center for Marine Studies (CEM), Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), "the Penguins have been washed up on the coast of Paraná in the last two weeks.
Almost 20 tons of dead fish along with a shocking number of dolphins manatee and turtles on Southwest Florida shores from red tide
Photo wideopenspaces.com
Federal officials are alarmed over the shocking number of dolphins killed by red tide in the Gulf. They've declared an emergency and are enlisting the help of scientists to find solutions.
Many of these dolphins have been recovered by Mote Marine Lab.
Researchers are now scrambling to respond to this crisis, and at the moment, there's no end in sight. Since July, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has documented at least 50 dolphin deaths from Pinellas to Collier counties.
That number is so startling they have now declared a UME, or Unusual Mortality Event.
Hundreds of thousands of Atlantic surf clams washed up on Revere Beach Massachusetts along with multiple dead whales
Massachusetts environmental officials are investigating a large clam die-off.
The Boston Globe reports hundreds of thousands of Atlantic surf clams have washed up on Revere Beach this week.
The state Department of Conservation and Recreation says the die-off is the third event of its kind this summer.
The Division of Marine Fisheries will analyze the clams in an attempt to determine the cause of the mass shellfish kill.
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay spokesman Bruce Berman believes shellfish die-off have increased as a result of climate change.
A Mystery described as a "mortality incident" as dozens of starlings drop out of the sky in Tsawwassen BC Canada
Authorities are currently investigating after a mysterious bird incident that took place in BC.
On Friday, September 14, witnesses were shocked to see a group of birds plummet and hit the ground.
The incident took place in Tsawwassen, BC, specifically near the ferry terminals.
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) explained in a statement that 42 starlings had died in what they're describing as a "mortality incident."
Enforcement officers have collected the deceased animals and are currently in the process of getting them to an animal health lab for a post-mortem examination.
The true state of America's coastal and waterways: Thousands of tons of dead marine life is impacting the US every month and it's getting worse
Manatee, marine life fatalities add up
A dead manatee floated up in Anna Maria Sound Aug. 26 to the dock at the Sunrise Lane home of Holmes Beach Commissioner Judy Titsworth.
She said there were only a few dead fish on the waterway, but red tide is suspected in the manatee death.
She said a team from Mote Marine Laboratory was on its way to collect the manatee. Islander Courtesy Photo: Judy Titsworth
Below is just a handful of fish-die-offs in August which impacted the US, these catastrophes are mostly only covered by local news stations and never linked together nationally which keeps the "big picture" out of the eyes of the greater public who understandably have no idea of the carnage, our oceans and waterways are dying.
Hundreds of endangered olive ridley sea turtles have been found dead off the coast of Mexico experts say cause of death unknown
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Hundreds of endangered olive ridley sea turtles have been found dead off the coast of Mexico.
Local fishermen in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca have found about 300 dead sea turtles entangled in fishing nets although it's not sure if the turtles died in the nets or got tangled up later.
The find comes just days after another 102 olive ridley turtles were found dead in neighbouring Chiapas state.
The Olive Ridley turtles are a struggling species and are considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
According to the BBC, it is not clear whether they got caught in the nets while still alive or were already dead when they became entangled.
Malibu Lagoon State Beach is the latest American coastal area to suffer a massive fish die-off as thousands of Mullet succumb to the heat
The California State Parks Department said the massive fish die-off along the Malibu Lagoon State Beach is most likely a jump in water temperatures.
Thousands of dead mullet and smelt fish are now rotting along the shoreline causing an unbelievable bad smell causing locals and tourists alike to stay away from the beach.
According to ABC7.com, parks employees armed with rakes and protective suits were removing the dead fish Monday morning.
The department was trucking the fish out to a local landfill.
The biggest colony of king penguins on the planet has collapsed 90% of the population gone-scientists fear the decline will continue
The biggest colony of king penguins on the planet has collapsed, with nearly 90 per cent of the population vanishing since the 1980s, ecologists said.
The colony was first discovered in the Sixties on Ile aux Cochons, also known as Pig Island, in the southern Indian Ocean, between Madagascar and Antarctica.
At its peak, it contained two million birds and 500,000 breeding pairs, but new satellite images have shown an empty landscape, in which 88 per cent of the colony appears to have vanished.
Although nobody has set foot on the island since 1982, photographs taken from a helicopter during a recent flyover show that there could be just 60,000 breeding pairs left, and scientists fear the decline will continue.
Little seabirds washing up dead along the shores of Alaska by the hundreds of thousands now dying as far south as San Francisco
Scientists estimate that thousands of dead seabirds are washing up along the coasts of western Alaska for the last three years.
Common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, have been found dead on shores from Shishmaref to St. Lawrence Island.
It is thought millions of the little birds have died since 2015 but the true number will never be known because the majority of birds are thought to die out at sea.
A new report now claims that the dying seabirds are now turning up as far south as San Francisco...
More than 2,500 starving and injured seabirds have been rescued in Northern California just since the beginning of this year.
Another marine life disaster unfolding in the US as dead harbour seals are washing up in large numbers around southern Maine
Marine mammal experts are at a loss to explain why a large number of harbour seals have turned up dead on beaches in southern Maine this summer [2018].
The most recent cluster of deaths was reported [Mon 13 Aug 2018] when the carcasses of 11 harbour seals, mostly pups, were discovered on Bayview and Kinney Shores beaches in Saco.
Those beaches are situated between Ocean Park and Ferry Beach State Park.
In the past 2 days, more than 30 dead harbour seals have washed ashore on southern Maine beaches, including Wells Beach and Ogunquit Beach, said Lynda Doughty, executive director of Marine Mammals of Maine, which investigated the Saco seal deaths.
Tens of tons of dead marine life including fish dolphins turtles manatees and birds along the Westcoast of Florida from red tide algae bloom
It has some of the most beautiful beaches in the world but a red tide algae bloom stretching a hundred miles from Anna Maria Island down to Fort Myers on the Westcoast of Florida is turning into an ecological disaster as tons of dead fish are being shovelled from beaches.
Dead fish are now washing ashore on Anna Maria Island after the red tide bloom drifted slightly north over the weekend. Meanwhile, crews in Sarasota County say they removed several tons of dead fish over the last two days alone.
Red tide is an algae bloom that depletes oxygen in the water, killing marine life from fish to manatees to turtles.
A mass mortality never seen before: Thousands of fish sea turtles, manatees and other marine life dying from massive algae bloom in Florida
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If you're wondering whether the red tide has made its way to Manatee County yet, the simple answer is yes.
It just depends on where you are looking.
At least, that's the way conditions were as of Sunday afternoon.
By Sunday, reports of dozens of dead fish, a foul smell in the air and terrible coughing fits reached as far north as Bradenton Beach.
But in Anna Maria, near the northern tip of the island, there were no obvious signs of red tide.
The algae bloom, known as Karenia brevis, has wreaked havoc along Florida's southwest coast, seemingly creeping its way farther north with every passing day.
By late last week, it had reached Sarasota County, leaving Siesta Key with brown water and thousands of dead fish lining the shore.
Red tide algae bloom from Tampa Bay area to the Florida Keys is killing hundreds of sea turtles with a mass mortality never seen before
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Hundreds of sea turtles have washed up on Southwest Florida beaches this year in a mass mortality event that researchers say will impact the recovery of the protected species.
Seventeen have been recovered off Sanibel and Captiva islands near Fort Myers in the past week. "Our average for the entire year is usually around 30 or 35, but we've had 53 in June and July alone," said Kelly Sloan, a sea turtle researcher at the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation on Sanibel. Sloan said foundation has picked up 91 sea turtles on the islands since a red tide bloom started in October.
"Most of them have been mature adults, and only one in 1,000 make it to adulthood," Sloan said.
"It takes a loggerhead 25 to 30 years to mature, so that really does have a significant impact on their recovery."
Another clue to the decline of The Pacific Ocean as a massive increase in jellyfish due to lack of fish who feed on them
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Jellyfish have been a natural part of the Bering Sea ecosystem for decades.
In recent years, their population numbers in the region have dramatically increased.
A research team funded by the National Science Foundation is in Nome to find out what the cause and implications might be.
"There are certain fish that do feed on jellyfish: some of the salmon do, some other fish," said Mary Beth Decker, a research scientist from Yale University.
"But in this part of the world, not this many fish feed on jellyfish."
Thousands of dead seabirds washing up along the Alaskan coast for the 4th year in a row confirms the West coast of the U.S. is dying
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Scientists estimate that thousands of dead seabirds are washing up along the coasts of western Alaska.
Common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, have been found dead on shores from Shishmaref to St. Lawrence Island since last month, KTUU-TV reported Wednesday.
A dead bird has been examined at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's migratory bird office in Anchorage and more are being sent in to be tested, said Robb Kaler, a wildlife biologist for the service.
"The death scale of the Pacific herring in Piltun Bay is enormous," 100 TONNES of dead herring wash up on Pacific island probable cause oil
Photo CEN/Ecosakh.ru
An estimated 100 tons of dead fish washed up on Sakhalin Island in Russia, north of Japan last week. "The death scale of the Pacific herring in Piltun Bay is enormous," a spokesman for the regional NGO Ecological Watch of Sakhalin said.
"The death of such an amount of uneven-aged fish of the same species is an abnormal event, and it may be a question of the destruction of a large part of the population of the herring of the bay."
The event was first reported on June 12.
Fish samples have been sent to Moscow for testing.
Tens of thousands of fish endure a terrible stressful death after river dried up due to closed Keystone Dam and Zink Dam in Arkansas
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The Arkansas River at Tulsa essentially dried up downstream from a closed Keystone Dam and below a closed, yet leaky, Zink Dam on Friday.
Tens of thousands of fish died as a result.
While the air temperature rose to near 100 degrees and the water temperature was not far behind, fish crowded into shallow pools below the dam in often futile efforts to survive.
Carcasses littered the gravel bars as resident bikers and trail walkers stopped to ask what was going on.
Ras Al Khaimah residents United Arab Emirates woke on Monday to their beach littered with tens of thousands of dead fish reason unknown
Reports of animal and fish die off's are mostly reported in local newspapers or websites so the problem is often missed by the greater public, however, since around 2011 the problem has become global thanks to certain websites dedicated to reporting the phenomenon, literally millions of species are dying every day and the cause of many of the deaths are unknown.
Residents of Al Rams area in Ras Al Khaimah woke up on Monday morning to an astonishing sight: a large stretch of the beach was littered with thousands of dead fish.
The small Sardines lined a large part of the 1.6km shoreline.
Tons of marine species washed up on Carelmapu beach in Chile: The harmful algae bloom Karenia is thought to have caused the deaths
Tons of sea worms or pinucas beached on the beach of Carelmapu, Los Lagos region, Chile.
The harmful algae bloom Karenia is thought to have caused the deaths.
The phenomenon occurs on the coast near the facilities of the port and the urban area, where tons of these species remain dead and in a state of putrefaction causing a terrible smell.
The inhabitants are asking for the intervention of the local government in order to remove the problem.
One of the solutions could be to bury this waste, however, neighbours say that with the rotation of tides every time the sea expels more specimens towards the beach.
Lack of food and rough weather responsible for the "biggest penguin die-off in many years" along with other birds and fish in New Zealand
A little blue penguin washed up on Mount Maunganui Main Beach. Photo / George Novak
Marine advocates are calling a large number of little blue penguins washing up along the Bay of Plenty coastline the "biggest penguin die-off in many years".
The Department of Conservation (DoC) Tauranga office had answered an average of five calls each week since February, and Western Bay Wildlife Trust's Julia Graham said the trust had 58 calls about dead penguins in two weeks.
Dozens of whales washed up on a beach in New Zealand once again during coronal activity on our Sun
Dozens of whales washed up on a beach in New Zealand in bizarre circumstances.
Pictures from the beach in Haast, in the South Westland region show 38 whales' remains strewn across the landscape.
Among the total number of whales, there were 12 found alive, but they had to be euthanised by conservationists.
The whales became stranded after swimming too close to the shore at the mouth of the Okuru river. While it's clear how they washed up, the reason as to why they swam so close to the shore remains a mystery.
New Zealand Department of Conservation manager Wayne Costello said conditions were too dangerous to rescue those found alive.
Never before seen virus in the South Atlantic related to measles killing dolphins by the hundreds in Sepetiba Bay in Brazil
Dolphins in a bay are like canaries in a coal mine.
In Sepetiba Bay in Brazil, hundreds of dolphins have recently died.
Scientists have discovered more than 200 dead Guiana dolphins over the past few months in the bay, according to a new report by The New York Times.
The deaths were reportedly caused by a virus related to measles.
This virus typically might kill only a handful of dolphins-and never before in the South Atlantic.
But now, bloated, scarred, deformed and emaciated carcasses are turning up everywhere in the bay near Rio de Janeiro.
Another mystery as more than 200 monkeys have died and several are ailing in a village of Amroha India due to unknown circumstances
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More than 200 monkeys have died and several are ailing in a village of Amroha due to a mysterious disease.
Villagers are puzzled and concerned about increasing number of deaths of monkeys.
The residents also fear chances of such disease spreading to human beings.
The bodies have been sent to Bareilly for postmortem to ascertain the real cause behind the deaths. Samples of food items and drainage have also been collected for investigation.
More than 150 cows drop dead in 2 hours one by one as owners watched in disbelief in Rangul Kenya under unknown circumstances
Joshua Otieno, a farmer in Nyakach, Kisumu County, watched in disbelief as his cows collapsed and died one after the other.
By midday, Tuesday, more than 150 cows, including some that belonged to his neighbours in Rangul village, lay dead under unknown circumstances.
An entire village is now counting losses and coming to terms with the biggest catastrophe in the area in recent times.
The cows reportedly developed difficulties walking before dropping dead as their owners watched, moments after leaving a grazing field.
According to the owners, the deaths began on Monday evening.
Space Weather link? Scientists baffled after 49 dolphins wash up DEAD on beach in Argentina one week after 150 whales died in Australia
It is a theory The Big Wobble has been banding around for almost two years now, Solar storms may trigger whale strandings as well as dolphins, birds and bees and other animals who rely upon our magnetic field to navigate.
Last week 150 whales beached and died while migrating off Western Australia in one of the largest mass strandings of whales in WA.
Yesterday scientists were left baffled after 61 short-beaked dolphins were found washed ashore on a beach resort in Argentina.
135 dead whales beached while migrating off Western Australia as rescuers struggle to save a further 15: Is the stranding linked to a solar storm?
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Rescuers are racing against the clock to save 15 short-finned pilot whales after more than 150 of the migrating mammals beached on the country’s west coast, the other 135 whales have died.
Most of the whales had died, said Jeremy Chick, incident controller at Western Australia’s conservation department, after becoming stranded on dry land overnight.
It is important to mention at this point the stranding has occurred as our planet is about to move deeper into a solar stream where it will experience fast-moving rivulets of solar wind--perhaps faster than 600 km/s (1.3 million mph).
Wildlife and plantlife on the brink: World’s last male northern white rhino is dead: Animal populations set to plummet by 67% between 1970 and 2020
Sudan: The world’s last male northern white rhino Credit YouTube
The world’s last male northern white rhino has died, the Kenyan conservancy taking care of it said, leaving only two females of its subspecies alive in the world.
It's another blow for Earth's biodiversity and last Saturday, a comprehensive, global appraisal of the damage, and what can be done to reverse the free-fall die-off of animal, fish and plant species around the world, will be conducted in Colombia.
In just three years’ time, the World will have lost two-thirds of all wild animals.
Wildlife on the brink! Biodiversity is in crisis globally as a comprehensive global appraisal of the damage starts today but is it too late?
According to The Daily Mail, there are an estimated 8.7 million plant and animal species on our planet and about 86 percent of land species and 91 percent of sea species remain undiscovered.
Of the ones we do know, 1,204 mammals, 1,469 bird, 1,215 reptiles, 2,100 amphibia, and 2,386 fish species are considered threatened.
Also threatened are 1,414 insects, 2,187 molluscs, 732 crustacea, 237 coral, 12,505 plant, 33 mushrooms, and six brown algae species.
Earth is enduring the sixth mass species extinction which is plunging the planet into 'global crisis', scientists have warned.
Almost 1 million animals killed by an extreme cold phenomenon known as "dzud" in Mongolia so far this year
Spare a thought for Mongolia, with temperatures dropping as low as −30 °C (−22 °F) the Mongolian National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring has declared the winter a "dzud".
A total of 800,000 animals have died so far this year in Mongolia due to the extreme wintry weather is known as "dzud", the country's meteorology service said Wednesday.
The dzud is a brutal weather phenomenon in Mongolia where a dry summer followed by a frigid winter kills vast numbers of livestock either by starvation or cold.
Untold millions of dead marine life washing up around coastal areas of the UK in the wake of "The Beast From The East" and Storm Emma
Around the shores of the UK millions of marine life have been washing up on beaches after "The Beast From The East" and Storm Emma impacted Ireland and Britain last week.
Untold millions of dead and dying animals are being reported around the country.
According to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, tens of thousands of animals washed up on the beaches after the storm.
Tens of thousands of marine animals have been washed up along the UK’s east coast following the cold temperatures and rough weather over the last week.
Incredible photo of bird frozen alive under the water in Holland as 100's of thousands of dead creatures reported in aftermath of "The Beast Of The East"
An incredible photo has surfaced showing a kingfisher bird frozen solid mid-dive into a Dutch canal.
On inspection of the picture, it is obvious the bird froze solid at the split-second it dived into the water for a fish.
The unfortunate bird froze during the big freeze "The Beast Of The East" which plunged Europe into Arctic conditions.
Christoph van Ingen, who spotted the kingfisher in the town of Oostzaan, just north of Amsterdam, said he believed it might have dived into the canal to catch fish as the water was turning solid and been unable to escape.
Around a 100 people died across Ireland, the UK and Europe during the cold snap.
Algae bloom kills 2,450 tons of salmon in the same area where 40 thousand tons died in 2016 in southern Chile
The algae bloom that is occurring in southern Chile has left around 2,450 tons of dead salmon, according to the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca).
The phenomenon that produces blooms of harmful algae is affecting farming centres in the regions of Los Lagos, Aysen and Magallanes.
Fish mortality losses have been reported by two companies.
The company Invermar reported to the Commission for the Financial Market (CMF) the mortality of 1,600 tons of salmon, whose value is estimated at around US $ 8.25 million.
For its part, AquaChile reported that until January 31 it had LOST 23 million fish, equivalent to 42 thousand tons, for an estimated value of US $ 167 million.
By 2020 two thirds of all wild animals in the world will be dead: Unprecedented death of millions of tons of marine life around the world is increasing
In just two years’ time, the World will have lost two-thirds of all wild animals.
This amazing statistic from The Living Planet Index goes on: The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends and at the current rate all species would be totally gone before 2050.
Below is a snippet of the carnage around the world in just the last few days.
SAPO24 reported, more than two dozen pilot whales died after they hit the coast on two beaches on the Cape Verdean island of Maio, in an environmental disaster that is all too common around the world recently.
Tipping point breached! Monarch butterfly has a 95% decline since 1980's in North America: Two-thirds of ALL animals and insects extinct in 2 years
Hundreds of small starling birds fall from the sky in Utah, US while the cause behind it remains a mystery.
In a weird incident which occurred in Utah on Monday, January 29 where more than 200 starling birds fell on the street from the sky, while the cause behind it remains unknown.
According to Sergeant Chad Carpenter with the Draper City Police Department: "It's one of the rarest things I've ever heard of," fox13now.com reported as per say.
"You've seen that black cloud as it's flying all over the place.
The kangaroo is the latest species under stress as nearly 4 million die in 12 months from a mystery disease which has left experts baffled
In the 12 months between 2016 and 2017 nearly 4 million kangaroos have died in Australia from a mystery disease.
Millions of kangaroos are being wiped out down under by a mystery disease that causes massive haemorrhages and internal bleeding.
According to scientists, they have been left baffled as to why the kangaroo population is being decimated.
Both red and grey varieties are dying from the mysterious disease which is causing the kangaroos to die from hemorrhaging and internal bleeding around the joints.
Thousands of bats drop dead from trees after temperatures topped 47 degrees C around Sydney where heat is so severe it has melted tarmac
Thousands of flying foxes, bats, died in an Australian heatwave so severe it has melted tarmac.
Animal welfare volunteers battled to save the lives of the hundreds of babies and some adults in distress but the death toll is believed to be in the thousands.
A spokesman from the charity Help Save the Wildlife and Bushlands in Campbelltown said: "The efforts of our volunteers yesterday was both heroic and heartbreaking.
Authorities at a loss as to to why 80 gray dolphins have died in less than a month on the coast of Rio de Janeiro state; 5 dead dolphins a day!
Environmentalists in Brazil say they are trying to figure out why more than 80 gray dolphins have died in less than a month on the coast of Rio de Janeiro state.
A statement from the Gray Dolphin Institute says the dolphins died over past 17 days in the Bay of Sepetiba, a coastal district about 70 kilometres west of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Dead seagulls thousands of fish and a dolphin wash up dead for the third time in just over a year along the same area of beach in Cornwall England
Dead seagulls, thousands of fish and a dolphin, have washed up on Marazion beach just one year after tens of thousands of fish washed up on the same Cornish beach and thousands of more of dead mackerel and herring on Pentwean Beach just a couple of miles away.
Thousands of dead sea creatures have washed up on the beach are believed to have been killed by a lightning strike.
Hundreds of sharks wash up dead on an Iranian island local fishermen thought to be responsible
Hundreds of dead sharks have washed up on the Iranian Shif island.
The sharks are thought to have been killed for their fins as fishermen catch the sharks for their fins before throwing the dead sharks back into the sea, leaving them to wash up on the shore.
The fins are believed to have medicinal properties, officials say, however catching the sharks is illegal.
Reindeer mystery in Norway: 65 animals were mown down on Saturday and more than 100 since Thursday by freight trains in sudden increase
A Norwegian reindeer herder says that freight trains have killed more than a 100 of the animals on the tracks in three days.
Torstein Appfjell, a distraught reindeer herder in Helgeland county, said Sunday that the worst incident happened Saturday when 65 animals were mown down.
Appfjell told The Associated Press by telephone it was "totally tragic" and "unprecedented" for so many reindeer to lose their lives in this way.
Biologists believe that the extreme heat caused by El Nino killed the fish overnight and caused them to wash ashore Friday.
The lagoon played host to several events during the 2016 Olympic games and is a tourist attraction. Rio's environment ministry released a statement saying that it has been on alert since Thursday morning when oxygen levels in the body of water began to fall sharply.
"This is our Deep Water Horizon!" An incredible 408 marine life die-offs almost one every day since July 2016 is the biggest marine disaster in Florida's history
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"This is our Deep Water Horizon!" This was claimed by Florida Fish and Wildlife way back in July 2016. Full story here
Algae bloom is not expected to last more than a few months at worst, the deadly algae bloom which is killing billions of marine life around the coastal waters of Florida has now lasted more than one and a half years and shows no sign of going away anytime soon and is without a doubt the biggest marine disaster in Florida's history.
The die-offs are still causing chaos, this month massive cleanup was underway in Manatee County at the Robinson Preserve.
"This is our Deep Water Horizon!" This was claimed by Florida Fish and Wildlife way back in July 2016. Full story here
Algae bloom is not expected to last more than a few months at worst, the deadly algae bloom which is killing billions of marine life around the coastal waters of Florida has now lasted more than one and a half years and shows no sign of going away anytime soon and is without a doubt the biggest marine disaster in Florida's history.
The die-offs are still causing chaos, this month massive cleanup was underway in Manatee County at the Robinson Preserve.
The University Of Aberdeen has issued the latest depressing news of a catastrophic die-off: 70% decline of world population for seabirds since 1970
Due to overfishing, habitat destruction and pollution, populations have dropped by an incredible 70% since the 1970s, (can you imagine if the worlds human population fell by 70% in just 50 years?)
Scientists compared two time periods – 1970 to 1989 and 1990 to 2010 – to assess the degree of competition seabirds faced for prey species such as anchovy, mackerel and squid.
It's probably the most depressing Christmas story of 2018: reindeer and caribou herds have declined by 56 per cent! A loss of more than 2.6 million
It's probably the most depressing Christmas story of 2018.
They are one of the most important animals in the already fragile Arctic ecosystem, the magnificent reindeer, or caribou and according to a new report is the latest animal to decline.
According to a report by NOAA, Despite an increase of vegetation available for grazing, herd populations of caribou and wild reindeer across the Arctic tundra have declined by nearly 50% over the last two decades.
The populations of reindeer, a.k.a. caribou, near the North Pole, has been declining dramatically in recent years.
Since the mid-1990s, the size of reindeer and caribou herds has declined by 56 per cent.
That’s an incredible drop from an estimated 4.7 million animals to 2.1 million, a loss of 2.6 million.
"The smell has permeated everything!" Thousands of bats fall from the sky dead into woman's garden after 40 deg C heatwave in Australia
A terrified mum fled her home in Queensland, Australia, after thousands of bats fell from the sky in her garden due to the recent heatwave with temperatures reaching above 40°C over several days.
Dozens of families in and around the city of Cairns, in Australia, have been forced to temporarily abandon their homes after flying foxes started dropping dead on their properties due to the unbearable heat.
Philippa Schoor found the dead bats outside her front door, and said the dead creatures were filled with maggots when she found them in her front garden.
Another 28 whales died 500km east of Melbourne bringing the total to 242 around the coast of New Zealand and eastern Australia in one week
Twenty-eight whales have died after a mass beaching event on a remote part of the East Gippsland coast in Victoria's far east.
Twenty-seven pilot whales and one humpback whale were reported beached last week at Wingan Inlet, between Cape Conran and Mallacoota, in the Croajingolong National Park, about 500km east of Melbourne.
It brings the total of whale deaths around the coast of New Zealand and eastern Australia to 242 in just one week.
Another 51 pilot whales have died bringing the total to more than 200 deaths in just 5 days in separate incidents in New Zealand
The tragedy comes after more than 200 whales have died in separate incidents in New Zealand in the last five days.
According to the BBC, between 80 and 90 whales were found to have become stranded in Hanson Bay on Thursday.
Several dozen managed to refloat themselves but 50 were found dead and one had to be put down.
The deaths there come less than a week after 145 pilot whales were found dead on a remote beach in New Zealand's far south Stewart Island.
More misery for Florida: An alarming number of dolphins a washing ashore along southwest Florida beaches in recent days
More problems for Florida marine life as an alarming number of dead dolphins have washed ashore along southwest Florida beaches, including the Tampa Bay area.
It comes after a summer of unprecedented deaths around the coast of Florida, literally millions of tons of dead marine life due to a toxic algae bloom.
And 2018 has been a record year for dolphin deaths.
NOAA says the incessant red tide bloom has been a factor in 109 recorded dolphin deaths throughout southwest Florida.
"Over the last week or so, its changed dramatically,” said Gretchen Lovewell with Mote Marine Lab.
For the third year in a row (and each year gets earlier) bats are dropping dead from trees in parts of Australia due to extreme heat
For the third straight year, extreme heat in Australia is causing bats to fall out of trees dead in alarming numbers.
According to The Cairns Post, temperatures higher than 40 deg C, 104+ deg F, have killed hundreds of flying foxes, who just fall to the floor dead or dying from the extreme heat.
The extreme weather has been taking a toll on the Far North’s flying foxes, who are dropping by the dozen from trees — and causing a potential public health risk.
Wildlife carers say they are struggling with the overwhelming numbers of bats becoming affected by heat stress in colonies in Cairns, Edmonton, Gordonvale, and Townsville.
Another tipping point breached: Salmon have disappeared in Scotland: Not a single salmon caught during the entire season.
But now Global warming is being blamed for Scotland's worst salmon season in living memory.
Some beats on famous rivers like the Spey and the Nith recorded not a single salmon caught during the entire season.
Just two salmon were caught on the River Fyne in Argyll this year, where once more than 700 were caught each season.
The number of fish caught by anglers has been so low that some estates have stopped selling permits for once-popular beats because there is no fish to catch.
A double whale stranding in New Zealand's South Island kills almost 150 pilot whales coinciding with massive coronal activity on our sun
A hiker found the 145 whales in two pods just over a mile apart on Stewart Island, a small island to the south of the country's South Island.
They had been half-buried in the sand and around half of them were already dead.
The rest were in very bad health and were euthanized, due to the lack of potential rescuers and the difficulty they would have faced in reaching the location.
The whales had been 22 miles from Oban, the main town on Stewart Island, which only has around 400 people.
A "once in a lifetime weather system" of "gale force winds," cold temperatures-kills hundreds of turtles off Cape Cod Friday
Close to 200 dead sea turtles, (though the true number is not known), were found frozen off the coast of Cape Cod Friday after low temperatures stifled their ability to make it safely to shore.
The Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuary said a "once in a lifetime weather system" of "gale force winds," cold temperatures and high tide caused the migrating turtles to become "incapacitated" by the time they were found along the Massachusetts peninsula around 6 a.m. ET Friday.
"A lot of the turtles were found frozen in the water still," Mass Audubon's director Bob Prescott told NBC News.
Water crisis developing in Iraq after tens of thousands of dead carp wash up and 100,000 people hospitalized from water pollution
Piles of the dead silvery fish, along with a few car tires and plastic bags, could be seen on Friday lying under a massive concrete bridge.
They covered the surface of deeper water nearby, providing rich pickings for birds circling above. And in the fish farms of Saddat Al Hindiyah in Babylon province, about 80 kilometres south of Baghdad, the lifeless carp floated together in large clumps.
Imagine if the human population fell by 60% Wildlife populations have declined by 67% in less than 50 years! The Living Planet Report 2018
That would be like emptying the America's, Europe, Africa, Oceania and China of people
Back in February, The Big Wobble posted a frightening warning... Tipping point breached! The monarch butterfly has a 95% decline since 1980's in North America: Two-thirds of ALL animals and insects extinct in 2 years
In just two years’ time, the World will have lost two-thirds of all wild animals.
This amazing statistic from The Living Planet Index goes on: The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.
"Tens of thousands" dead fish still washing up along Northwest Florida coastline as Hurricane Michael failed to wash away deadly red tide
Just ask Skip Miller.
A Bayshore Drive resident, Miller woke up Wednesday morning to find what he described as "tens of thousands" of small dead fish that had washed up to his dock on Choctawhatchee Bay.
He said he assumed the culprit was red tide, and that the majority of the fish were bait fish, with some catfish and redfish in the mix.
"It's going to be a major nightmare for me," Miller said.
He contacted Walton County officials, only to learn that the county has no cleanup David Demarest, the director of communications for the Walton County Tourist Development Council, said that the organization aids in the cleanup of public beaches, but those private bayfront areas were the owner's responsibility.
"The smell started making her sick" City of Naples is the latest Florida area to suffer thousands of rotting dead fish washing up (Video)
Moorings Bay is one of several areas that experienced fish kills over the weekend, Naples' Natural Resources Manager Stephanie Molloy said.
"We've had dead fish wash up on a few beaches, and then the tides and currents push them into the canals," she said. A bloom of a diatom, called Cylindrotheca, is one possible cause of the dead fish, Molloy said.
"It's complex, and we don't know the exact cause," she said.
"It could be related to the diatom. ( algae)."
“I’ve been here all my life and I’ve never seen anything like this.” Florida red tide bloom now stretches from the Gulf of Mexico to Fort Lauderdale
This summer has seen the death of millions, maybe billions of marine species from birds to fish, manatees, dolphins and turtles due to a red tide algae bloom with many experts saying they have never seen anything like it before.
The latest report comes from ABC Local News claiming hundreds of dead fish have been found washed ashore Fort Lauderdale Beach, leaving officials to believe that toxic red tide algae has made its first appearance in Broward County.
It is astonishing, jaw-dropping! THOUSANDS OF TONS (MILLIONS MAYBE BILLIONS) of Marine species dead along the entire Florida west coast since May
Below is a list of die-offs, (with links attached) along the entire west coast of Florida since May, the list is frightening.
It started off slowly...And then exploded.
Hundreds of penguins have died in recent weeks on the beaches of Paraná along the east coast of Brazil reason unknown
Translated from Portuguese
"Hundreds of penguins and two dolphins have died in recent weeks in Paraná on the east coast of Brazil.
Experts claimed that more than 400 penguins have died on the beaches of Matinhos, Guaratuba and Pontal do Paraná in the last two weeks "
According to the biologist Camila Domit, of the Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Mammals and Marine Reptiles of the Center for Marine Studies (CEM), Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), "the Penguins have been washed up on the coast of Paraná in the last two weeks.
Almost 20 tons of dead fish along with a shocking number of dolphins manatee and turtles on Southwest Florida shores from red tide
Federal officials are alarmed over the shocking number of dolphins killed by red tide in the Gulf. They've declared an emergency and are enlisting the help of scientists to find solutions.
Many of these dolphins have been recovered by Mote Marine Lab.
Researchers are now scrambling to respond to this crisis, and at the moment, there's no end in sight. Since July, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has documented at least 50 dolphin deaths from Pinellas to Collier counties.
That number is so startling they have now declared a UME, or Unusual Mortality Event.
Hundreds of thousands of Atlantic surf clams washed up on Revere Beach Massachusetts along with multiple dead whales
The Boston Globe reports hundreds of thousands of Atlantic surf clams have washed up on Revere Beach this week.
The state Department of Conservation and Recreation says the die-off is the third event of its kind this summer.
The Division of Marine Fisheries will analyze the clams in an attempt to determine the cause of the mass shellfish kill.
Save the Harbor/Save the Bay spokesman Bruce Berman believes shellfish die-off have increased as a result of climate change.
A Mystery described as a "mortality incident" as dozens of starlings drop out of the sky in Tsawwassen BC Canada
On Friday, September 14, witnesses were shocked to see a group of birds plummet and hit the ground.
The incident took place in Tsawwassen, BC, specifically near the ferry terminals.
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) explained in a statement that 42 starlings had died in what they're describing as a "mortality incident."
Enforcement officers have collected the deceased animals and are currently in the process of getting them to an animal health lab for a post-mortem examination.
The true state of America's coastal and waterways: Thousands of tons of dead marine life is impacting the US every month and it's getting worse
A dead manatee floated up in Anna Maria Sound Aug. 26 to the dock at the Sunrise Lane home of Holmes Beach Commissioner Judy Titsworth.
She said there were only a few dead fish on the waterway, but red tide is suspected in the manatee death.
She said a team from Mote Marine Laboratory was on its way to collect the manatee. Islander Courtesy Photo: Judy Titsworth
Below is just a handful of fish-die-offs in August which impacted the US, these catastrophes are mostly only covered by local news stations and never linked together nationally which keeps the "big picture" out of the eyes of the greater public who understandably have no idea of the carnage, our oceans and waterways are dying.
Hundreds of endangered olive ridley sea turtles have been found dead off the coast of Mexico experts say cause of death unknown
Hundreds of endangered olive ridley sea turtles have been found dead off the coast of Mexico.
Local fishermen in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca have found about 300 dead sea turtles entangled in fishing nets although it's not sure if the turtles died in the nets or got tangled up later.
The find comes just days after another 102 olive ridley turtles were found dead in neighbouring Chiapas state.
The Olive Ridley turtles are a struggling species and are considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.
According to the BBC, it is not clear whether they got caught in the nets while still alive or were already dead when they became entangled.
Malibu Lagoon State Beach is the latest American coastal area to suffer a massive fish die-off as thousands of Mullet succumb to the heat
Thousands of dead mullet and smelt fish are now rotting along the shoreline causing an unbelievable bad smell causing locals and tourists alike to stay away from the beach.
According to ABC7.com, parks employees armed with rakes and protective suits were removing the dead fish Monday morning.
The department was trucking the fish out to a local landfill.
The biggest colony of king penguins on the planet has collapsed 90% of the population gone-scientists fear the decline will continue
The colony was first discovered in the Sixties on Ile aux Cochons, also known as Pig Island, in the southern Indian Ocean, between Madagascar and Antarctica.
At its peak, it contained two million birds and 500,000 breeding pairs, but new satellite images have shown an empty landscape, in which 88 per cent of the colony appears to have vanished.
Although nobody has set foot on the island since 1982, photographs taken from a helicopter during a recent flyover show that there could be just 60,000 breeding pairs left, and scientists fear the decline will continue.
Little seabirds washing up dead along the shores of Alaska by the hundreds of thousands now dying as far south as San Francisco
Common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, have been found dead on shores from Shishmaref to St. Lawrence Island.
It is thought millions of the little birds have died since 2015 but the true number will never be known because the majority of birds are thought to die out at sea.
A new report now claims that the dying seabirds are now turning up as far south as San Francisco...
More than 2,500 starving and injured seabirds have been rescued in Northern California just since the beginning of this year.
Another marine life disaster unfolding in the US as dead harbour seals are washing up in large numbers around southern Maine
The most recent cluster of deaths was reported [Mon 13 Aug 2018] when the carcasses of 11 harbour seals, mostly pups, were discovered on Bayview and Kinney Shores beaches in Saco.
Those beaches are situated between Ocean Park and Ferry Beach State Park.
In the past 2 days, more than 30 dead harbour seals have washed ashore on southern Maine beaches, including Wells Beach and Ogunquit Beach, said Lynda Doughty, executive director of Marine Mammals of Maine, which investigated the Saco seal deaths.
Tens of tons of dead marine life including fish dolphins turtles manatees and birds along the Westcoast of Florida from red tide algae bloom
Dead fish are now washing ashore on Anna Maria Island after the red tide bloom drifted slightly north over the weekend. Meanwhile, crews in Sarasota County say they removed several tons of dead fish over the last two days alone.
Red tide is an algae bloom that depletes oxygen in the water, killing marine life from fish to manatees to turtles.
A mass mortality never seen before: Thousands of fish sea turtles, manatees and other marine life dying from massive algae bloom in Florida
If you're wondering whether the red tide has made its way to Manatee County yet, the simple answer is yes.
It just depends on where you are looking.
At least, that's the way conditions were as of Sunday afternoon.
By Sunday, reports of dozens of dead fish, a foul smell in the air and terrible coughing fits reached as far north as Bradenton Beach.
But in Anna Maria, near the northern tip of the island, there were no obvious signs of red tide.
The algae bloom, known as Karenia brevis, has wreaked havoc along Florida's southwest coast, seemingly creeping its way farther north with every passing day.
By late last week, it had reached Sarasota County, leaving Siesta Key with brown water and thousands of dead fish lining the shore.
Red tide algae bloom from Tampa Bay area to the Florida Keys is killing hundreds of sea turtles with a mass mortality never seen before
Hundreds of sea turtles have washed up on Southwest Florida beaches this year in a mass mortality event that researchers say will impact the recovery of the protected species.
Seventeen have been recovered off Sanibel and Captiva islands near Fort Myers in the past week. "Our average for the entire year is usually around 30 or 35, but we've had 53 in June and July alone," said Kelly Sloan, a sea turtle researcher at the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation on Sanibel. Sloan said foundation has picked up 91 sea turtles on the islands since a red tide bloom started in October.
"Most of them have been mature adults, and only one in 1,000 make it to adulthood," Sloan said.
"It takes a loggerhead 25 to 30 years to mature, so that really does have a significant impact on their recovery."
Another clue to the decline of The Pacific Ocean as a massive increase in jellyfish due to lack of fish who feed on them
Jellyfish have been a natural part of the Bering Sea ecosystem for decades.
In recent years, their population numbers in the region have dramatically increased.
A research team funded by the National Science Foundation is in Nome to find out what the cause and implications might be.
"There are certain fish that do feed on jellyfish: some of the salmon do, some other fish," said Mary Beth Decker, a research scientist from Yale University.
"But in this part of the world, not this many fish feed on jellyfish."
Thousands of dead seabirds washing up along the Alaskan coast for the 4th year in a row confirms the West coast of the U.S. is dying
Scientists estimate that thousands of dead seabirds are washing up along the coasts of western Alaska.
Common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, have been found dead on shores from Shishmaref to St. Lawrence Island since last month, KTUU-TV reported Wednesday.
A dead bird has been examined at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's migratory bird office in Anchorage and more are being sent in to be tested, said Robb Kaler, a wildlife biologist for the service.
"The death scale of the Pacific herring in Piltun Bay is enormous," 100 TONNES of dead herring wash up on Pacific island probable cause oil
An estimated 100 tons of dead fish washed up on Sakhalin Island in Russia, north of Japan last week. "The death scale of the Pacific herring in Piltun Bay is enormous," a spokesman for the regional NGO Ecological Watch of Sakhalin said.
"The death of such an amount of uneven-aged fish of the same species is an abnormal event, and it may be a question of the destruction of a large part of the population of the herring of the bay."
The event was first reported on June 12.
Fish samples have been sent to Moscow for testing.
Tens of thousands of fish endure a terrible stressful death after river dried up due to closed Keystone Dam and Zink Dam in Arkansas
The Arkansas River at Tulsa essentially dried up downstream from a closed Keystone Dam and below a closed, yet leaky, Zink Dam on Friday.
Tens of thousands of fish died as a result.
While the air temperature rose to near 100 degrees and the water temperature was not far behind, fish crowded into shallow pools below the dam in often futile efforts to survive.
Carcasses littered the gravel bars as resident bikers and trail walkers stopped to ask what was going on.
Ras Al Khaimah residents United Arab Emirates woke on Monday to their beach littered with tens of thousands of dead fish reason unknown
Residents of Al Rams area in Ras Al Khaimah woke up on Monday morning to an astonishing sight: a large stretch of the beach was littered with thousands of dead fish.
The small Sardines lined a large part of the 1.6km shoreline.
Tons of marine species washed up on Carelmapu beach in Chile: The harmful algae bloom Karenia is thought to have caused the deaths
The harmful algae bloom Karenia is thought to have caused the deaths.
The phenomenon occurs on the coast near the facilities of the port and the urban area, where tons of these species remain dead and in a state of putrefaction causing a terrible smell.
The inhabitants are asking for the intervention of the local government in order to remove the problem.
One of the solutions could be to bury this waste, however, neighbours say that with the rotation of tides every time the sea expels more specimens towards the beach.
Lack of food and rough weather responsible for the "biggest penguin die-off in many years" along with other birds and fish in New Zealand
Marine advocates are calling a large number of little blue penguins washing up along the Bay of Plenty coastline the "biggest penguin die-off in many years".
The Department of Conservation (DoC) Tauranga office had answered an average of five calls each week since February, and Western Bay Wildlife Trust's Julia Graham said the trust had 58 calls about dead penguins in two weeks.
Dozens of whales washed up on a beach in New Zealand once again during coronal activity on our Sun
Pictures from the beach in Haast, in the South Westland region show 38 whales' remains strewn across the landscape.
Among the total number of whales, there were 12 found alive, but they had to be euthanised by conservationists.
The whales became stranded after swimming too close to the shore at the mouth of the Okuru river. While it's clear how they washed up, the reason as to why they swam so close to the shore remains a mystery.
New Zealand Department of Conservation manager Wayne Costello said conditions were too dangerous to rescue those found alive.
Never before seen virus in the South Atlantic related to measles killing dolphins by the hundreds in Sepetiba Bay in Brazil
In Sepetiba Bay in Brazil, hundreds of dolphins have recently died.
Scientists have discovered more than 200 dead Guiana dolphins over the past few months in the bay, according to a new report by The New York Times.
The deaths were reportedly caused by a virus related to measles.
This virus typically might kill only a handful of dolphins-and never before in the South Atlantic.
But now, bloated, scarred, deformed and emaciated carcasses are turning up everywhere in the bay near Rio de Janeiro.
Another mystery as more than 200 monkeys have died and several are ailing in a village of Amroha India due to unknown circumstances
More than 200 monkeys have died and several are ailing in a village of Amroha due to a mysterious disease.
Villagers are puzzled and concerned about increasing number of deaths of monkeys.
The residents also fear chances of such disease spreading to human beings.
The bodies have been sent to Bareilly for postmortem to ascertain the real cause behind the deaths. Samples of food items and drainage have also been collected for investigation.
More than 150 cows drop dead in 2 hours one by one as owners watched in disbelief in Rangul Kenya under unknown circumstances
By midday, Tuesday, more than 150 cows, including some that belonged to his neighbours in Rangul village, lay dead under unknown circumstances.
An entire village is now counting losses and coming to terms with the biggest catastrophe in the area in recent times.
The cows reportedly developed difficulties walking before dropping dead as their owners watched, moments after leaving a grazing field.
According to the owners, the deaths began on Monday evening.
Space Weather link? Scientists baffled after 49 dolphins wash up DEAD on beach in Argentina one week after 150 whales died in Australia
Last week 150 whales beached and died while migrating off Western Australia in one of the largest mass strandings of whales in WA.
Yesterday scientists were left baffled after 61 short-beaked dolphins were found washed ashore on a beach resort in Argentina.
135 dead whales beached while migrating off Western Australia as rescuers struggle to save a further 15: Is the stranding linked to a solar storm?
Rescuers are racing against the clock to save 15 short-finned pilot whales after more than 150 of the migrating mammals beached on the country’s west coast, the other 135 whales have died.
Most of the whales had died, said Jeremy Chick, incident controller at Western Australia’s conservation department, after becoming stranded on dry land overnight.
It is important to mention at this point the stranding has occurred as our planet is about to move deeper into a solar stream where it will experience fast-moving rivulets of solar wind--perhaps faster than 600 km/s (1.3 million mph).
Wildlife and plantlife on the brink: World’s last male northern white rhino is dead: Animal populations set to plummet by 67% between 1970 and 2020
The world’s last male northern white rhino has died, the Kenyan conservancy taking care of it said, leaving only two females of its subspecies alive in the world.
It's another blow for Earth's biodiversity and last Saturday, a comprehensive, global appraisal of the damage, and what can be done to reverse the free-fall die-off of animal, fish and plant species around the world, will be conducted in Colombia.
In just three years’ time, the World will have lost two-thirds of all wild animals.
Wildlife on the brink! Biodiversity is in crisis globally as a comprehensive global appraisal of the damage starts today but is it too late?
Of the ones we do know, 1,204 mammals, 1,469 bird, 1,215 reptiles, 2,100 amphibia, and 2,386 fish species are considered threatened.
Also threatened are 1,414 insects, 2,187 molluscs, 732 crustacea, 237 coral, 12,505 plant, 33 mushrooms, and six brown algae species.
Earth is enduring the sixth mass species extinction which is plunging the planet into 'global crisis', scientists have warned.
Almost 1 million animals killed by an extreme cold phenomenon known as "dzud" in Mongolia so far this year
A total of 800,000 animals have died so far this year in Mongolia due to the extreme wintry weather is known as "dzud", the country's meteorology service said Wednesday.
The dzud is a brutal weather phenomenon in Mongolia where a dry summer followed by a frigid winter kills vast numbers of livestock either by starvation or cold.
Untold millions of dead marine life washing up around coastal areas of the UK in the wake of "The Beast From The East" and Storm Emma
Untold millions of dead and dying animals are being reported around the country.
According to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, tens of thousands of animals washed up on the beaches after the storm.
Tens of thousands of marine animals have been washed up along the UK’s east coast following the cold temperatures and rough weather over the last week.
Incredible photo of bird frozen alive under the water in Holland as 100's of thousands of dead creatures reported in aftermath of "The Beast Of The East"
On inspection of the picture, it is obvious the bird froze solid at the split-second it dived into the water for a fish.
The unfortunate bird froze during the big freeze "The Beast Of The East" which plunged Europe into Arctic conditions.
Christoph van Ingen, who spotted the kingfisher in the town of Oostzaan, just north of Amsterdam, said he believed it might have dived into the canal to catch fish as the water was turning solid and been unable to escape.
Around a 100 people died across Ireland, the UK and Europe during the cold snap.
Algae bloom kills 2,450 tons of salmon in the same area where 40 thousand tons died in 2016 in southern Chile
The phenomenon that produces blooms of harmful algae is affecting farming centres in the regions of Los Lagos, Aysen and Magallanes.
Fish mortality losses have been reported by two companies.
The company Invermar reported to the Commission for the Financial Market (CMF) the mortality of 1,600 tons of salmon, whose value is estimated at around US $ 8.25 million.
For its part, AquaChile reported that until January 31 it had LOST 23 million fish, equivalent to 42 thousand tons, for an estimated value of US $ 167 million.
By 2020 two thirds of all wild animals in the world will be dead: Unprecedented death of millions of tons of marine life around the world is increasing
This amazing statistic from The Living Planet Index goes on: The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends and at the current rate all species would be totally gone before 2050.
Below is a snippet of the carnage around the world in just the last few days.
SAPO24 reported, more than two dozen pilot whales died after they hit the coast on two beaches on the Cape Verdean island of Maio, in an environmental disaster that is all too common around the world recently.
Tipping point breached! Monarch butterfly has a 95% decline since 1980's in North America: Two-thirds of ALL animals and insects extinct in 2 years
According to researchers from WWF and the Zoological Society of London in just two years’ time, the World will have lost two-thirds of all wild animals and insects.
This amazing statistic from The Living Planet Index goes on: The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world upon which humanity depends.
The latest species under stress is the wonderful North American monarch butterfly.
A new report by The Xerces Society claim the number of monarchs wintering in California has dropped to a five-year low, despite more volunteers counting more sites in search of the orange-and-black insect that is arguably the most admired of North American butterflies, a report said on Friday.
In a weird incident which occurred in Utah on Monday, January 29 where more than 200 starling birds fell on the street from the sky, while the cause behind it remains unknown.
According to Sergeant Chad Carpenter with the Draper City Police Department: "It's one of the rarest things I've ever heard of," fox13now.com reported as per say.
"You've seen that black cloud as it's flying all over the place.
The kangaroo is the latest species under stress as nearly 4 million die in 12 months from a mystery disease which has left experts baffled
Millions of kangaroos are being wiped out down under by a mystery disease that causes massive haemorrhages and internal bleeding.
According to scientists, they have been left baffled as to why the kangaroo population is being decimated.
Both red and grey varieties are dying from the mysterious disease which is causing the kangaroos to die from hemorrhaging and internal bleeding around the joints.
Thousands of bats drop dead from trees after temperatures topped 47 degrees C around Sydney where heat is so severe it has melted tarmac
Animal welfare volunteers battled to save the lives of the hundreds of babies and some adults in distress but the death toll is believed to be in the thousands.
A spokesman from the charity Help Save the Wildlife and Bushlands in Campbelltown said: "The efforts of our volunteers yesterday was both heroic and heartbreaking.
Authorities at a loss as to to why 80 gray dolphins have died in less than a month on the coast of Rio de Janeiro state; 5 dead dolphins a day!
A statement from the Gray Dolphin Institute says the dolphins died over past 17 days in the Bay of Sepetiba, a coastal district about 70 kilometres west of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Dead seagulls thousands of fish and a dolphin wash up dead for the third time in just over a year along the same area of beach in Cornwall England
Thousands of dead sea creatures have washed up on the beach are believed to have been killed by a lightning strike.
Hundreds of sharks wash up dead on an Iranian island local fishermen thought to be responsible
The sharks are thought to have been killed for their fins as fishermen catch the sharks for their fins before throwing the dead sharks back into the sea, leaving them to wash up on the shore.
The fins are believed to have medicinal properties, officials say, however catching the sharks is illegal.
Reindeer mystery in Norway: 65 animals were mown down on Saturday and more than 100 since Thursday by freight trains in sudden increase
Torstein Appfjell, a distraught reindeer herder in Helgeland county, said Sunday that the worst incident happened Saturday when 65 animals were mown down.
Appfjell told The Associated Press by telephone it was "totally tragic" and "unprecedented" for so many reindeer to lose their lives in this way.
