‘It was like fluorescent green paint': Toxic algae spreads through Alaska waters as warming worsens

‘It was like fluorescent green paint': Toxic algae spreads through Alaska waters as warming worsens

Warmer waters around Alaska have been causing a small group of harmful algae to bloom, according to Alaska Public Media. What's happening? In Kotzebue, Alaska, one bloom was so vivid that locals at first thought someone had dumped chemicals into the water. "It was like fluorescent green paint," Alex Whiting, director of the local tribal government's environmental program, told Alaska Public Media. Most algae in Alaska's waters are harmless, and …