The algae bloom is visible from space
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in Environment, fish in the news

A 3,800-square-mile algae bloom in the Pacific Ocean off Canada's British Columbia has been traced to a California businessman who promised a local tribe he could help their salmon runs by fertilizing the ocean with iron.

LINK (via: The Guardian)

As controversy mounts over the revelations that an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, dumping around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada's coast, it has emerged the Canadian government may have known about the geoengineering scheme and not stopped it.

LINK (via: The Guardian)

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