Toxic algal bloom covering Florida lake so big it is visible from spaceAtoxic bloom of blue-green algae is blossoming across Lake Okeechobee in ...
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Atoxic bloom of blue-green algae is blossoming across Lake Okeechobee in Florida, leading to health warnings and the closure of parts of a local marina.
The bloom was thought to have spread across 380 square miles of the lake as of June 12. It is Florida's largest freshwater lake, and the 10th-largest natural freshwater lake in the U.S.
This algal bloom equated to an area of more than half the lake's 734-square-mile surface. It can be seen from space as pictures taken by NASA's Operational Land Imager-2 on the Landsat 9 satellite demonstrate.
Attached link
https://www.newsweek.com/algal-bloom-florida-lake-seen-space-toxic-1813735Taxonomy
- Algae