Tag: hypoxia
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When red tide smothered an urban lake, citizen scientists sounded the alarm
Photo: Shifting tides Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland in cleaner times, above left, and after a devastating algal bloom brought fish-killing red tide to the lake in the summer of 2022. Mike D via Flickr and Damon Tighe Private citizens were first on the scene to document a massive die-off in Oakland’s Lake Merritt. Their…
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Great Lakes Scientist says, “If We Lose The EPA, We Lose Lake Erie”
At the 8th Binational Meeting of the Lake Erie Millennium Network, 125 scientists gathered at the University of Windsor in Ontario to hear experts weigh-in on the health of the southernmost, warmest and shallowest of the Great Lakes. They presented research on everything from climate change, water quality, phosphorous, agricultural run-off, cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), hypoxia…
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Double whammy killed coral reefs off Texas coast
Photo: This colony of Spiny Flower Coral (Mussa angulosa) shows sections that are partially bleached, completely bleached, and even some dead sections already overgrown with algae. A bleached Fire Coral stands alongside. (Credit: Joyce & Frank Burek/NOAA Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary) Researchers may have solved the mystery of what caused the death of…
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NOAA and partners team up to prevent future Great Lakes drinking water crisis
Video of Preventing a Great Lakes Drinking Water Crisis A new video SMART BUOYS: Preventing a Great Lakes Drinking Water Crisis released by Ocean Conservancy describes how NOAA forecast models provide advance warnings to Lake Erie drinking water plant managers to avoid shutdowns due to poor water quality. An inter-agency team of public and private…
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Meat industry blamed for largest-ever ‘dead zone’ in Gulf of Mexico
The global meat industry, already implicated in driving global warming and deforestation, has now been blamed for fueling what is expected to be the worst “dead zone” on record in the Gulf of Mexico. Toxins from manure and fertiliser pouring into waterways are exacerbating huge, harmful algal blooms that create oxygen-deprived stretches of the gulf,…
