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Harmful algae blooms increase as water warms in the world's major lakes

2013-01-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: The warming waters of one of central Europe's most popular holiday destinations, Switzerland's Lake Zurich, have created an ideal environment for a population explosion of algae including Planktothrix rubescens, a toxic cyanobacterium. It has the potential to harm humans, animals and the tourism that pumps up the economies of lake districts. Although harmful algal blooms have been documented for more than a century, recently the number and frequency of cases have drastically increased. According...

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