The seas of Turkey are experiencing an onslaught of invasive jellyfish.
The country’s difficulties with enormous swarms of the unsightly stingers pose a threat to its real prospects of leapfrogging France to become Europe’s second most popular tourist destination after Spain, in tandem with unbearable summer temperatures increasingly besetting Mediterranean resorts as part of climate change.
Rising water temperatures caused by the climate crisis, as well as pollution, create a favourable environment for jellyfish proliferation. Jellyfish populations along Turkey’s coastline have surged in recent years, particularly in the Marmara and Mediterranean Seas, Hurriyet reported on February 27.
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