Seaweeds Invasion in China
It comes after hundreds of square kilometres off the city of Qingdao in Shandong province were taken over by an outbreak of a thick seaweed known as enteromorpha prolifera.
The first outbreaks, also know as green tides, were recorded in the 1970?s and occur mostly in Europe and South America. But since 2007 the phenomenon has been making an annual appearance in China’s Yellow Sea.
A 2008 outbreak of enteromorpha prolifera in China was the largest ever recorded in the world and covered over 600 square kilometres.
The weed has destroyed large swathes of the seabed in the Mediterranean over the past decade after escaping from an aquarium.
Growing at a rate of up to eight centimetres (3.5 inches) per day, the alga spreads like wildfire, depriving other plants and animals of vital sunlight and oxygen. link
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