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"Dramatic Rise in Algae Blooms for Chesapeake Bay Watershed" [1]

"There’s a new study that finds harmful algae blooms in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries have been increasing dramatically over the last 20 years.

This is in addition to the seasonal algae blooms that occur when the weather warms up in the spring and the summer.

One strain Prorocentrum minimum was found to have doubled during the period running from 1991 through 2008 while another cyanobacteria in the tidal waters rose from 13 percent per year 23 percent during the 1990’s."

Don Rush reports for Delmrva Pulic Radio May 11, 2015. [2]

Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [5]
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Source: Delmarva Public Radio [2], 05/12/2015
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/dramatic-rise-algae-blooms-chesapeake-bay-watershed [2] http://delmarvapublicradio.net/post/dramatic-rise-algae-blooms-chesapeake-bay-watershed [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/mid-atlantic [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81