Climate Fix: Another Algae Bloom Is Taking Over San Francisco Bay

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A perfect recipe of summer weather, climate-warmed waters and excess nutrient pollution has brought the red tide back to the San Francisco Bay shoreline. The same algae bloom that caused a massive fish die-off in Oakland’s Lake Merritt last summer has appeared again, stretching from Emeryville to Richardson Bay. Is this our new normal? We’ll talk with experts about the algae that’s taking over the Bay and what’s being done about it. Guests: Ezra David Romero, climate reporter, KQED Jonathan Rosenfield Ph.D., science director, San Francisco Baykeeper Eileen White, executive director, Water Board San Francisco Bay Region Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.1	From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. For the second year in a row, there's a harmful algae bloom growing along some bay shorelines.
1:19.5	Last year, the burst of microorganisms killed off huge numbers of fish leading to gnarly scenes
1:24.7	in some places, especially Lake Marin. So why is this happening again?
1:28.7	How might it be linked to climate change and our industrial water infrastructure?
1:32.8	As part of our latest edition of Climate Fix, our collaboration with the KQED science team,
1:37.1	we'll be talking with experts about the whole range of what's happening from the microscopic
1:41.9	picture of the single-celled organism in question to the satellite images of what's happening across the microscopic picture of the single-celled organism in question
1:44.6	to the satellite images of what's happening across the bay.
1:48.0	That's all coming up next after this news.
2:00.4	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
2:03.9	Heterosigma Akashuo. That's the tiny creature that's currently responsible for the harmful algal
2:10.1	bloom that's affecting parts of the bay shoreline, turning the water really uncomfortable
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