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William & Mary: Increase in marine heat waves threatens coastal habitats

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With continued warming, Chesapeake Bay will suffer extreme heat for half the year by 2100 Heat waves—like the one that blistered the Pacific Northwest last June—also occur underwater. A new study in Frontiers in Marine Science paints a worrisome picture of recent and projected trends in marine heat waves within the nation’s largest estuary, with […]