Southern California Red tides are getting worse, new Scripps study finds
The spring of 2020 saw one of Southern California’s most prolific red tides on record, and while the bioluminescence left beaches from Santa Barbara down through Baja California with ravishing visual displays at night, the algal inundation – more of a chocolate-brown than a crimson-red– resulted in graver consequences for many creatures within it. … Last week, a multi-institutional team of researchers led by UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) published a report on a several-years-long study in the academic journal Elementa, identifying deteriorating water quality.