Tag: mussels

Oil spill dangers can linger for 40 years, report shows

December 9, 2013

The Genivar report for Transport Canada on oil spills say that some persistent effects can last for more than 40 years, based on a study of a spill in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The report  notes that persistent sub-surface oil is still a problem at Prince William Sound, site of the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989. […]

Climate change decreases some mussel beds in Salish Sea by 51%: UBC study

November 29, 2011

A UBC study shows that some mussel beds  in the Salish Sea have decreased by 51 per cent over the past 52 years, a consequence of gradually rising temperatures off Vancouver Island, the Gulf and San Juan Islands and Washington's Olympic peninsula. The study shows that the climate change is already affecting species by not […]