Scientists sought an explanation for the mass death, and found evidence of an ecological upheaval that has profoundly changed the food chains in the Bering Sea. It has affected not only the migratory shearwaters from Australia, but the number of Pacific salmon returning to spawn in Alaska's rivers, as well as populations of fur seals and sea lions living around the Alaskan coastline. The Arctic has lost 40 per cent of its seasonal sea ice cover in little more than four decades, causing the margin of permanent polar sea ice to retreat rapidly northwards. They squirt their digestive enzymes onto their target meal. The sea louse, is a nematode and not an insect.
Most people think mites are insects.
Sparta, in north central New Jersey, sits on an old formation of the minerals dolomite, and calcite. Mining for limestone and marble had started as late as the end of the century before last . Around 1900, Thomas Edison operated an iron ore mine here near Sparta. Today, a dull white residue dust is literally poisoning the natives. Tremolite has also been found in regional creeks.