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New York Sea Grant has published a revised brochure to educate dog owners on how to protect their pets from harmful algal blooms, including signs of exposure and symptoms.
Algal blooms have many causes, but it's commonly chemicals in industrial fertilizers that end up in rivers and oceans in a ...
As the growing tide of travelers strains housing, water and hot spots, protests and measures to lessen the effects of ...
The northern Barents Sea region has experienced rapid warming and increased advection of warm Atlantic water in recent decades resulting in winter sea ice loss larger than in any other part of the ...
From fire rainbows to red snow, Earth’s atmosphere is full of bizarre phenomena. Here’s how climate science explains these rare and strange weather events around the world.
Pink snow tints the edges of Antarctica Microscopic red algae, responsible for a phenomenon also known as watermelon snow or blood snow, are proliferating due to global warming and in turn ...
The dark patches on the Greenland Ice Sheet are algae that bloom during the spring when the snow on of the ice melts. Near the bottom of the picture, you can see researcher Laura Halbach taking ...
The “greening” of Antarctica primarily refers to the growth of green snow algae, which thrive in the increasingly warmer temperatures of the Antarctic Peninsula. As temperatures rise slightly above ...
Red algae blooms, also known as red tides, are harmful algal blooms that can occur in California waters.
Justice & Health Aggressive Algae Bloom Clogged Water System, Prompting Boil Water Advisory in D.C. and Parts of Virginia Warming waters in the Chesapeake Bay and rising temperatures will make ...
More rain instead of snow in the winter leads to extra pollution runoff earlier in the season, Dennison says. And warming temperatures allow algae to bloom earlier in the summer than before.
The giant viruses might infect algae that are increasing Greenland's ice melt. These viruses could help kill off the damaging algal blooms, helping to reduce some of the impacts of climate change.