Toxic Algae Blooming In Warm Water From California To Alaska

PHUONG LE | Associated Press, Savannah Morning News
Tue, 08/04/2015 - 4:53pm

SEATTLE, Wa. — A vast bloom of toxic algae off the West Coast is denser, more widespread and deeper than scientists feared even weeks ago, according to surveyors aboard a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel. This coastal ribbon of microscopic algae, up to 40 miles wide and 650 feet deep in places, is flourishing amid unusually warm Pacific Ocean temperatures.

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