However, this bloom off the Madagascar coast covered an estimated 2,000km². During the spring/summer of 2019/2020 in the southern hemisphere, an exceptional phytoplankton bloom was discovered in ...

The researchers found that drought in southern Africa's drylands had caused the strongest phytoplankton bloom in about 27 years, south-east of Madagascar. Millions of tiny organisms called ...

A recent study highlights how dust from drought-stricken southern Africa fueled an exceptional phytoplankton bloom southeast of Madagascar during the 2019/2020 southern hemisphere spring and summer.