Huge amounts of algae occupies a US coast



Huge amounts unprecedented toxic algae occupied  the coast of the United States Pacific and Canada.The accumulation of these algae cause health risks, as well as losses in income of up to several million dollars due to the closure of fisheries.These quantities that appeared last May thousands of kilometers from the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California and even Canada, which extends the quantities that surprised researchers with respect to its size and composition.Vera Trainer, a researcher at the Oceanography Fisheries Science Center in the northwest of the country, Washington told Reuters "It is there. It's the longest survival and larger intensity that we have not seen before."It is believed that these enormous quantities of algae have arisen partly because of the rise is entrusted to the degree ocean water temperature on the western coast of the country along.The Trainer The concern of scientists is with the approach of the appearance of El Nino weather phenomenon characterized by the warmth of the water surface in the Pacific Ocean and updated each between four and 12 years may result in droughts and free to Avh in Asia and East Africa, heavy rains and flooding in South America.

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