New Study Links Red Tides and Dead Zones off West Coast of Florida (IMAGE)

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

New Study Links Red Tides and Dead Zones off West Coast of Florida

Caption

Red tides are becoming a near annual occurrence off the west coast of Florida, which are caused by massive blooms of the algae Karenia brevis fueled in part by excess nutrients in the ocean.

Credit

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data, acquired on July 14, 2021, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8.

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