All posts tagged "Algae"

Despite costly renovations touted by President Donald Trump, the Reflecting Pool is already dirtied with a layer of green muck.

According to reporting by Politico, workers are struggling to remove algae from the surface of the Reflecting Pool. Layers of algae keep floating to the top of the World War II Memorial side of the Reflecting Pool, Politico reported.

An Interior Department spokesperson told Politico that the algae is "residual" from supply lines that were dormant for eight weeks during the renovations and excused it as a normal part of the startup. ...

Gaviota (United States) (AFP) - Denise Christ regularly comes across injured wildlife in her work rescuing beached or stranded marine mammals along the California coast. But she's been shocked by the hundreds of sea lions and dolphins found on the shore in recent weeks, dead or dying from neurotoxin poisoning. "Heartbreaking, to say the least," said Christ, the Ventura County stranding coordinator for the Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute (CIMWI). The animals were sickened by domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by algae that are a food source for fish, which are then eaten by sea li......