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A Massive Seaweed Bloom in the Atlantic
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Published April 7, 2023
A belt of seaweed that stretches from the west coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is the largest on record for March.
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Putting the Red in “Red Tide”
Published March 29, 2023
Scientists developed a way to detect the fine-scale features of harmful algae blooms that occur close to beaches and inside small bays.
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Summer Color for Hood Canal
Published August 26, 2022
Though they were a bit tardy this year, the coccolithophores have arrived in Washington’s waters.
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Greening the Gulf of Finland
Published August 18, 2022
Blue-green algae are thriving in warmer-than-normal waters this summer.
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Blooming Lake Okeechobee
Published July 15, 2022
Nearly half of the lake was covered with blue-green algae in early July 2022.
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Summer Bloomin’ in the Pacific Northwest
Published July 1, 2022
Unusually cloud-free skies allowed satellites to observe colorful phenomenon taking shape in the region’s coastal waters.
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Brilliant Color in the Black Sea
Published June 27, 2022
As spring 2022 turned the page to summer, phytoplankton turned the seawater from dark to vivid.
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Phytoplankton Productivity Down in Gulf of Maine
Published June 7, 2022
New research shows that phytoplankton in the region are about 65 percent less productive than they were two decades ago.
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Bristol Abloom
Published June 3, 2022
Phytoplankton have brightened the waters off of Wales and England.
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Stirring Up a Mid-Atlantic Bloom
Published May 21, 2022
In mid-May, cool waters and abundant sunlight provoked a widespread phytoplankton bloom.
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Coloring the South Atlantic
Published January 27, 2022
At a place where seven different water masses meet, the waters are teeming with phytoplankton and fish.
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Red Tide off Rio
Published January 12, 2022
A dark, rainy spring gave way to a vast, long-lived phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Brazil.
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