Climate change raising incidents of maritime piracy

Royal Navy troops intercept two suspicious skiffs during anti-piracy operation in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia. A UMD study shows that rising ocean temperatures and falling fish populations in the area causes more crime at sea. Credit: Alex Cave/Royal Navy Archive

Climate change is raising the risk of extreme weather, causing food shortages and threatening the existence of myriad species—and if that weren’t enough, it’s now prompting pirates to plague the world’s oceans and seas.

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News Source: phys.org