Artificial gentle air pollution may gas expansion of poisonous algal blooms

Communities around the globe seeking to set up blooms of poisonous algae and cyanobacteria already know they have got to regulate nutrient air pollution. But now it kind of feels they are going to have every other issue to fret about: an excessive amount of synthetic gentle.

“You have light pollution in urbanised areas where you may also have a nutrient pollution problem,” says Hans-Peter Grossart on the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Germany. “It could be that the combination of both favours cyanobacteria blooms.”