Heatwave cooks mussels in their shells on California shore
by Susie Cagle in San Francisco from Environment | The Guardian on (#4J5WQ)
Temperatures lead to what appears to be largest local die-off in 15 years, raising fears for broader ecosystem
In all her years working at Bodega Bay, the marine reserve research coordinator Jackie Sones had never seen anything like it: scores of dead mussels on the rocks, their shells gaping and scorched, their meats thoroughly cooked.
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