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Earlier this year, scientists warned that bird flu had sparked the worst die-off on record for southern elephant seals when it spread among a population on Argentina's coast in 2023.

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Mass coral die-off is underway and, unless global warming is reversed, large reef systems as we know them will disappear.

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But the whelk is a cold-water species, and a marine heatwave in 2022 triggered a mass die-off of these snails in the Thames Estuary.

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He’s talking about the failure to recognize the consequences of climate change manifesting in the surrounding wetlands’ die-off.

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The team also showed that decayed elephant carcasses were more spread out across the landscape than fresh carcasses, indicating that the die-off in 2020 was different from typical elephant mortality patterns.

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