They’ll face traffic jams, algae blooms, sunburn and a rising threat – painful jellyfish encounters. Climate change, warming ocean temperatures, overfishing, invasive species and even ...

On Sunday morning, triathletes participating in a training event off Granger Bay were forced to abandon their swim due to thick fog and an influx of stinging jellyfish. All week blooms of starlight or ...

Hundreds of jellyfish threaten to shut down an Israeli power plant every summer. In recent years, several other power plants around the world have faced the same threat. More from Science Hundreds ...

In other parts of the world, swarms of jellyfish have menaced swimmers and clogged fishing nets. In 2006, beaches in Italy and Spain were closed because of a bloom of jellyfish known as mauve ...

The ongoing heat wave is bringing an increasing number of jellyfish to coastal waters this summer and swimmers and those playing along the beaches are being advised to take extra care.

However, sometimes huge masses of jellyfish, known as blooms, occur. These are the result of an explosion in a jellyfish population. Human influence is often involved in this phenomenon. For instance, ...

Under the heading of 'Review of Jellyfish Blooms in the Mediterranean and Black Sea', the reports points out that fish stocks had still not recovered from a surge in the mauve-coloured Pelagia ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1449-1461 (13 pages) Jellyfish blooms have increased in magnitude in several locations around the world, including in fjords. While the factors ...

Jellyfish blooms are an issue for many countries. Not only Korea but also other countries have been battling rising numbers. Korea has tried various countermeasures, but no innovative or totally ...