Though they were a bit tardy this year, the coccolithophores have arrived in Washington’s waters.
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Blue-green algae are thriving in warmer-than-normal waters this summer.
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Nearly half of the lake was covered with blue-green algae in early July 2022.
Unusually cloud-free skies allowed satellites to observe colorful phenomenon taking shape in the region’s coastal waters.
As spring 2022 turned the page to summer, phytoplankton turned the seawater from dark to vivid.
New research shows that phytoplankton in the region are about 65 percent less productive than they were two decades ago.
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Phytoplankton have brightened the waters off of Wales and England.
In mid-May, cool waters and abundant sunlight provoked a widespread phytoplankton bloom.
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At a place where seven different water masses meet, the waters are teeming with phytoplankton and fish.
A dark, rainy spring gave way to a vast, long-lived phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Brazil.