Climate Change Means Jellyfish and More Jellyfish

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 25, 2013

Lisa-ann Gershwin, jellyfish expert and author of Stung!, explains how warming and turbid water, lack of predators and competitors, low oxygen, and more acidic water are the conditions leading to an alarming and increasing rate of jellyfish in the oceans.

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