Algae — Chile
A “red tide” outbreak is widening in southern Chile’s fishing-rich waters, the government said on [Wed 11 May 2016], deepening what is already believed to be one of the country’s worst environmental crises in recent years.
The red tide — an algal bloom that turns the sea water red and makes seafood toxic — is a common, naturally recurring phenomenon in southern Chile, but the extent of the current outbreak is unprecedented.
The southern region of Los Lagos has been affected in recent
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