Never has a "dead zone" looked so beautiful.
An Earth-gazing satellite captured colorful images of possibly toxic algae blooms swirling in the Baltic Sea in early August. The bloom has helped to create a "dead zone," which is an area of oxygen poor waters that can prove deadly to marine life
In one of the photos taken in August but released in September, a ship cuts through the green blooms, leaving a path as it makes its way across the troubled body of water
"Warm weather and calm seas this August have increased the amount of biological activity in the central Baltic Sea, with the Finnish algae monitoring service Alg@line reporting a dominance of cyanobacteria in the region at this time," the European Space Agency (ESA) said in a statement about the new photos. Cyanobacteria is sometimes called blue-green algae. Read more...
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