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Thinner Arctic ice enabling new phytoplankton blooms

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 17:26 — Last Updated: Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 17:44
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Reduced ice cover is stimulating a new phenomenon in the Arctic — extra blooms of phytoplankton occurring in the fall,

A woman holds a rock covered with the aquatic algae Didymosphenia geminata -- known as didymo, or rock snot -- in the White River in Stockbridge, Vt. (Toby Talbot / The Canadian Press / AP)

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Rock snot is no Alaska invader, but it’s spreading fast as climate warms

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 09:34
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Rock snot, a slimy-looking algae that vexes salmon and salmon fishermen, is not an alien invader but a homegrown threat

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