{"id":11610,"date":"2021-06-30T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=11610"},"modified":"2021-06-29T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:51:18","slug":"why-there-are-jellyfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/why-there-are-jellyfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are there so many jellyfish?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Year after year, we hear news about the large number of jellyfish that are seen on the Mediterranean coast in general, and on the Catalan coast in particular. What is the reason for the proliferation of this marine animal? We tell you the reason why there are more and more. <\/b><\/h3>\n

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To begin with, we must say, as you must already imagine, that the main cause is climate change. Global warming is causing the Mediterranean Sea to rise in temperature 20% faster than other seas and oceans. This phenomenon is called <\/span>tropicalisation<\/span><\/i>, and even the <\/span>World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF)<\/span><\/a> NGO has conducted a detailed study on the subject.<\/span><\/p>\n

The effect of warming on living organisms is amplified by <\/span>seawater acidification<\/b>, as increasing alkalinity absorbs more CO\u2082, and the consequence is the weakening of organisms such as phytoplankton or coral, vital to many species, also greatly affected by the increase and frequency of storms, to the point that, in some areas, they have disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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