Warm Ocean 'Blob' Triggered Worst-Ever Toxic Algae Blooms
When you purchase through link on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . Blooms of alga along the West Coast of the U.S. in 2015 were large and more toxic than ever before , contaminating intellectual nourishment webs and closing fishery from southern California to as far northerly as British Columbia , in Canada . Now , a new study links them to elevated ocean temperature , with alga growth spurred by a mystic darn of warmer - than - average sea that scientist first noted years earlier and had dubbed " the warm blob ....