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Mediterranean left stung by Jellyfish invasion

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French emergency services have received more than 500 calls in a single day along the mediterranean coast, after large numbers of jellyfish swarmed around the area.

Paddlers received painful stings, and some swimmers were horrified to find themselves completely surrounded by the creatures.

Other areas around the med coast, including the Costa de Liguria in Itlay, and Sardinia, are also seeing a large influx of the stinging blobs.
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  • http://www.grist.org/news/2008/06/18/jellyfish/index.ht...
    The natural cycle of Mediterranean jellyfish populations is to swell every 12 years, plateau for four to six years, then subside. But massive groups of gelatinous jellies have been showing up for the past eight years, and they show no sign of flagging. In fact, jellies are proliferating worldwide, and that makes scientists nervous. "Jellyfish are an excellent bellwether for the environment," says oceanographer Jacqueline Goy. "The more jellyfish, the stronger the signal that something has changed." That "something" is, no doubt, an increase in human meddling: as humans pull tons of fish out of the world's seas, jellyfish move in; as human activity heats the climate, jellyfish take advantage of warmer waters to procreate like squishy, brainless rabbits.
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