Unusual Delta algae bloom worries researchers
Monday, September 7, 2015 - 10:00
in Earth & Climate
On a sunny August afternoon, a team of federal researchers cut a circuitous path through the heart of California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta doing real-time monitoring of water quality. Again and again, they made the same disturbing observation: tiny flecks of green goo that they recognized as a serious new threat to the stressed estuary.