EURASIA REVIEW • June 8, 2022
A new synthesis of two decades of data has elucidated the startling transformation of the warming Gulf of Maine. The study shows many trends that all point to an overarching pattern. The Gulf of Maine is increasingly influenced by warm water from the North Atlantic, and this is changing the very foundation of its food web. “These changes are the results of our actions, the grand experiment that we humans have run on this planet since the industrial age when we started burning fossil fuels,” said Senior Research Scientist William Balch, lead author on the NASA-funded study. “The future of the Gulf of Maine relies on us keeping our carbon dioxide emissions down, and that choice is completely under our control.”