NASA’s MODIS instrument captured this image of the southern tip of Florida curving into a blue-green ocean edged by white clouds. MODIS and a new generation of satellite-based sensors can help environmental managers track noxious algae in the Gulf Coast and beyond. (Image courtesy of NASA)
By the time they were over, a series of massive algal blooms along the west coast of Florida in 2020 would be linked to some 2,000 tons of dead marine life around Tampa Bay. The human costs were stark, too, including a double-digit increase in asthma cases in Sarasota and Pinellas...
