India's Toxic Green Algae Blooms Are So Big They Are Visible From Space!

A new study shows that as Himalayas’ snow caps melt, toxic green algae blooms are spreading at an alarming rate. They are now so big that they are visible from space.

As we can see from NASA images below, Noctiluca scintillans, or sea sparkle blooms, are lining the Arabian Sea’s coastlines.

Sea sparkle blooms are expanding at an alarming pace around the coastlines of India, Pakistan and some other nations. The blooms, which occur every year and can last for a few months, shrink the abundance of plankton, which plays a vital role in the food chain of the Arabian Sea.

This decreases the amount of fish in the ocean and threatens the function of fisheries, the livelihood of more than 150 million people.

According to researchers, the melting snow of the Himalayan-Tibbetan Plateu increases the temperature of the ocean’s surface, which, in turn, fuels the expansion of Noctiluca.

As stated by Joaquim Goes, a scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, this was by far the most dramatic change we had seen related to climate change.

As cold winter winds from the Himalayas cool down the ocean surface, these waters shrink down and make way for more nutritious water, which is vital for the survival of phytoplankton, from below to surface. Phytoplankton grow in the upper layer is the food source of fish.

And since climate change is shrinking the amount of snow, these needed cold winds decrease in magnitude, which supports he thriving of sea sparkle blooms.

As the toxic green algae expands, many natural gas plants, oil refineries, and desalination plants in Oman have had to scaled down as they are choked by the blooms and the huge number of jellyfish that feed on the algae.

And as the marine food supply decreased, we may expect a greater pressure on economic security and greater turmoil in countries which have already been gripped by poverty and war.

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