A few months ago, I went to Los Angeles for a long weekend with my friend Becca to visit her relatives and soak in some ...
Anyone taking a stroll down the South Packery Channel Jetty in Corpus Christi has probably noticed something out of the norm recently — and it’s a bit smelly. Red algae called Digenea simplex is ...
I f 4-foot-deep piles of red algae washing up along the Texas coast weren't enough to get beachgoers' attention, the smell certainly was. This week, a long stretch of the South Packery Jetty in ...
Harte Research Institute (HRI) marine biologist Jace Tunnell recently explained on social media that several beachgoers reached out to him Monday asking why the thick, hairy, red algae is washing ...
The first commercial planting of a native red New Zealand seaweed has been achieved off TÄ«kapa Moana Hauraki Gulf in the ...
Red algae called Digenea simplex is lining a long stretch of the beach and piling up as high as 4 feet in some areas. The thick, hairy red algae grows in large mats that look a lot like stinky ...
This algae is "totally different" from toxic red tide, which is microscopic algae, Tunnell said. While it is not harmful to humans, it can block access to the water and ruin the beach experience ...