One of the scientists, Dr. French, is the lead investigator of another die-off that has decimated the lobster fishery in Long Island Sound.
Besides the extreme weather, the area has been hit hard by a tree die-off that has claimed the lives of millions of trees across the state.
IF you live long enough, there comes a time when you look around and realize that the older generation has died off, that you have become the older generation and that even though you want no part of it, even though you'd prefer to continue on as the eternal child, you can't.
Even the small plane trees that are planted along the side streets of the Center die off and have to be replaced.
Confronted with the choice between adapting or dying off, Rockford has tried to reinvent itself.
The study yielded some surprising results: Native mammals were most likely to die off on islands that had rats, but not cats, foxes, or dingoes.
The effect is a mechanical one: they have fewer children; the grandparents' generation has already died off; so they have disproportionately large numbers of working-age adults.
Usually, the portion of the vine that is intertwined in your fence, tree, or bushes will die off since it has been disconnected from the root system.
Once the mineral substrate has formed, divers use plastic cable-ties to attach bits of dying coral that have snapped off nearby reefs.
Now that the mussels have died off, the lake has returned to something like normal.
Someday, these generations will die off, having been great parents and grandparents but lousy ancestors.
