“Israel is facing weeks of water shortages after an exceptional algae bloom crippled much of its desalination capacity, in a crisis scientists say was triggered when Israeli attacks destroyed much of Gaza’s wastewater infrastructure, causing a massive discharge of untreated sewage.”
I’m gonna need a smaller fucking violin.
‘A new normal’: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/18/miami-sargassum-seaweed-problem-climate-crisis
Tonight's evening walk & photo session at the local bird sanctuary... 🤩
#EveningWalk #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
Trump’s problem-plagued effort to revamp the landmark reflecting pool has stretched well past his initial goal of having the Pool ready by July 4 for the nation’s 250th birthday.
The president at first suggested his renovations would cost $1.5 million, but the bill ballooned to more than $16 million by June.
Trump had said the repairs would last a century, but within days of the project’s initial completion last month, the water was beset by an algae bloom and pieces of the new coa…
"Swimmers warned of toxic algae at newly designated Thames bathing site"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment #Water
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 155 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
AI reveals a massive algae boom across the world’s oceans #ocean
Delusional Trump rejoices that the ‘criminally made algae is gone’ at the reflecting pool
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-reflecting-pool-tr…
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata