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Toxic Green Algae Takes Over Beaches Off Yellow Sea In China
An anonymous reader writes "Caused by what researchers say is local industry and agriculture pollution, the green algae (scientific name Enteromorpha prolifera), has resulted in the foul-smelling mass taking over parts of China's Yellow Sea. The event, which has occurred in the same region over the past six years, always during the summer, has grown exponentially since its last notable interference in 2008. This year's growth is reportedly double in size, measuring in at more than 11,158 square miles. According to a report from the Guardian, officials have removed 7,335 tons of the algae recently in an attempt to control the growth after beach-goers in the nearby city of Qingdao have remain unaffected by the disturbance. While strange in appearance, the algae is reportedly nontoxic to humans but can, however, leave behind the toxic gas hydrogen sulphide. According to a report from the Daily Mail, crews are working to remove the algae as the toxicity is caused if it is left to decompose."
This is editing? WTF is up with our so-called editors? This summary is so far from proper English it's not even funny.
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The algae, called Enteromorpha prolifera, is not toxic to humans or animals.
However the carpet on the surface can dramatically change the ecology of the environment beneath it. It blocks sunlight from entering the ocean and sucks oxygen from the water suffocating marine life.
while the summary says it happened the last six years it also says it last happened in 2008. It's time warping algae! Think how much quicker you can get to your destination with biofuel from this stuff!
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Gregory Benford published a novel in 1980 about a more toxic algae bloom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape
It got the Nebula award so some of you might have read it.
The blooms on Clear Lake in California, possibly the most inaccurately-named body of water on the planet, have been getting worse as well. The city of Clearlake used to only smell like shit due to its decomposition about one year in six, now it's two in three. I thought that UV was supposed to be driving algae underwater, but probably it's only the kind we like.
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The reason ? Industrial farming, mainly. The manure that our farmers spread over the fields is washed down to the rivers and the sea shores. The level of phosphorous and nitrogen in the water rises and leads to massive, smelly "green tides" of algae on our beaches.
Unfortunately, no effective action is taken to correct these trends, and industrial farming tends to grow ever bigger and pollute our water ever more despite several warnings from the ECJ.
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The Chinese will just take it home, cook it and eat it.
If this happened off the coast of Guangzhou, sure, they would eat it. But it is off the coast of Qingdao. So it more likely they will figure out a way to brew it into beer. For several decades prior to WWI, Qingdao was a German treaty port. The Germans built quite a few breweries, and taught the Chinese how to run them. To this day, the city of Qingdao produces some of the best beer in Asia.
The concentration is most likely low enough to make extraction impractical while high enough to present you with an environmental problem. The worst of both worlds.
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So my wife and I rented an RV for a trip through California last fall, and near the end of our trip we stopped and stayed a few days in a little place called Watsonville, at the Pinto Lake RV Park. It's a small park, very quiet, right by the side of a small freshwater lake. You can go out on the lake in a boat, and you can fish in the lake, but the park manager tells us there's no swimming allowed and you might not want to eat the fish you catch. Why? The entire lake is a deep, dark green color from a completely out of control algae bloom, and the algae is somehow poisonous to people and animals. All the waterfowl living in the lake would walk around the park leaving wads of bird poop all over the lawn, which were dark green instead of white due to all the algae in their diet. But besides the issue with the lake and a lack of shower/laundry facilities, it was a nice place.
The cause? Apparently, agricultural runoff from all the local farms in the area. In other words, excessive use of fertilizers.
Check out the Mail Online article at the end.
Full-head coverage sunblock masks seem to be a very big thing in China, getting more and more popular every year.
I can't wait until they figure out how much more awesome those masks will be when they start decorating them like a Luchador.
Going to the beach will become quite an adventure!
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China awash in green stuff screwing everything up = Capitalism