algae

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Its incessant deployment, experts warn, could render Venice’s lagoon a fetid swamp choked by noxious algae, turning the city’s charming canals into stinking open sewers.

From New York Times

These fuels are made from petroleum and blended with sources such as wood mill waste, algae, corn grain, landfill gases and other sources.

From Seattle Times

Manatees are Florida’s official state marine mammal but are listed as a threatened species, also facing peril from boat strikes and toxic red tide algae outbreaks along the state’s Gulf coast.

From Seattle Times

She's also studying the growth of algae and other aquatic plants.

From Salon

But when it does along beaches where water isn’t as plentiful, the nutrients from decomposing algae can suck up the water’s oxygen and alter the ecosystem.

From Washington Post