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- Number of heat wave days jumped by more than 50 percent in the 30 years to 2016, compared with the period of 1925 to 1954.
- As heat waves have increased, kelp forests, seagrass meadows, and coral reefs have been lost.
- Heat-waves induced wild fires also, that take out huge areas of forest.
- 10-week marine heat-wave near Western Australia in 2011 shattered an entire ecosystem and permanently pushed commercial fish species into colder waters.
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