In amongst all of the doom and gloom, here’s an environmental feel-good story: leatherback turtles are visiting California again. Apparently they have been attracted by larger than usual swarms of jellyfish, which are a favorite delicacy:

Hungry as they are, leatherbacks don’t eat the jellyfish’s transparent globular bells – it’s the viciously stinging tentacles they love, and Benson and his colleagues found themselves “covered with stinging jellyfish slime” whenever they hauled any of the turtles aboard, he said.

I’m all in favor of other creatures that want to help in the fight against tentacles beings from beyond the stars. Especially if they happen to find the slimy bits tasty.