posted by Kathy Gilbeaux
on Fri, 2018-08-03 22:00
cbsnews.com - August 3, 2018
Dead marine life is washing up on the west coast of Florida. The culprit is a massive red tide algae bloom. The algae can also cause respiratory problems in humans. WPEC-TV meteorologist Jeff Berardelli joins CBSN with more on what's causing the bloom and what is being done to clean it up.
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RED TIDE IS DEVASTATING FLORIDA'S SEA LIFE. ARE HUMANS TO BLAME?
"Anything that can leave has, and anything that couldn't leave has died."
relay.nationalgeographic.com - by Maya Wei-Haas - August 8, 2018
The first thing you notice is the smell. It’s not a scent, exactly, but a tingling in the nose that quickly spreads to the throat and burns the lungs. But then you see the carcasses.
Thousands of sea creatures now litter many of southern Florida’s typically picturesque beaches. Most are fish—mullet fish, catfish, pufferfish, snook, trout, grunt, and even the massive goliath grouper. But other creatures are also washing ashore—crabs, eels, manatees, dolphins, turtles, and more. It's a wildlife massacre of massive proportions. And the cause of both the deaths and toxic, stinging fumes is a bloom of harmful algae that scientists say is the region’s worst in over a decade . . .
. . . The debate over causes seems endless. Today, are Florida's red tides human-caused or entirely natural? “The answer is probably some of both” . . .
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