‘Shifting the entire food web’: Researchers find far-reaching effects of marine heat waves

Nearly a decade after a "blob" of warm water showed up off the Oregon Coast, researchers are still making new discoveries about how it impacted the ecosystem. In late 2013, the waters off the Pacific Northwest began to heat up. The marine heat wave — what came to be known as “the blob” — would last for several years. Now, a decade later, scientists are still learning of different ways the heat wave changed our marine ecosystem. In research published last week in the journal Nature Communications, U.S. Geological Survey...