{"id":103851,"date":"2021-07-08T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103851"},"modified":"2021-07-07T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T22:20:00","slug":"global-news-up-to-a-billion-seashore-creatures-were-cooked-to-death-during-b-c-heat-wave-researcher-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103851","title":{"rendered":"(Global News) Up to a billion seashore creatures were cooked to death during B.C. heat wave, researcher says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many as one billion seashore animals along the Salish Sea may have died as a result of the heat wave in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of British Columbia say the heat caused a mass die-off of creatures like sea snails and sea stars, as well as mollusks like clams and mussels.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Harley, a professor with UBC\u2019s Department of Zoology, said large quantities of dead sea life were spotted at beaches across Metro Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8008202\/billion-sea-creatures-die-bc-heat-wave\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Researchers say the heat caused a mass die-off of creatures like sea snails, sea stars, clams and mussels. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GTOCvWKdFG\">https:\/\/t.co\/GTOCvWKdFG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Global BC (@GlobalBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlobalBC\/status\/1412637515593437185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as one billion seashore animals along the Salish Sea may have died as a result of the heat wave in British Columbia. Researchers at the University of British Columbia say the heat caused a mass die-off of creatures<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103851\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,207,115,140,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-canada","category-climate-change-weather","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103856,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103851\/revisions\/103856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}