Summary: <p>Climate change is having dramatic effects on the world’s oceans as <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WilkinsIceSheet/" target="_blank">ice sheets collapse</a> and the sea becomes <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/oceans/acidification/" target="_blank">more acidic</a>. Warmer temperatures allow some deep sea predators, like King Crab, to expand their range into new areas—to the detriment of many other sea creatures. According to James McClintock, a Professor of Physiology & Ecology of Aquatic & Marine Invertebrates at the University of Alabama, an army of deep sea King Crabs are slowly working their way up the Antarctic slope, a habitat they have never been found in before, and are potentially decimating the extremely delicate marine ecosystem.</p>
