Jellyfish love global warming. Salmon don't.

The thing about this is, so many papers are all "freak attack', 'bizarre incident', etc etc, but researchers have known for ages that this is one of the results of increasingly warmer and acid oceans- jellyfish are thriving, multiplying, and doing things that we haven't seen before.

"A jellyfish invasion has wiped out Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, killing more than 100,000 fish.

A Northern Salmon spokesman said last week's attack could cost more than £1m.

Billions of small jellyfish, known as Mauve Stingers, flooded into the cages about a mile into the Irish Sea, off Glenarm Bay and Cushendun.

The jellyfish covered an area of up to 10 square miles and a depth of 35 feet. Rescuers tried to reach the cages but the density of fish made it impossible.

Managing director John Russell said he had never seen anything like this in 30 years in the business. " Link to jellyfish story (BBC)

The plastic bag.

Great article from Salon about the ubiquitous plastic bag.

"...The most ubiquitous consumer item on Earth, the lowly plastic bag is an environmental scourge like none other, sapping the life out of our oceans and thwarting our attempts to recycle it."
LINK to article- read it, it's very good, and goes into the paper/plastic thing with all the info you need to smackdown the next fool who claims that plastic bags ger recycled, or claims that they're less damaging than paper bags. Annoyingly, article also mentions those damn "I am not a plastic bag" bags. People got trampled trying to buy those damn things. Dead, for trying to be trendy. Yeah. Argh.