BK In The News: September 9, 2022
Thousands of dead fish are piling up across the Bay Area.
From the concrete outer edges of Oakland’s Lake Merritt to the sandy beaches of San Francisco’s Fort Funston and the pebbled banks of Oyster Point in San Mateo County, the carcasses of fish likely poisoned by a harmful algal bloom — more...
BK In The News: September 8, 2022
Thousands of dead fish are washing up on the shores of the San Francisco Bay area. Scientists say the red tide causing the fish kill is likely driven by climate change and human wastewater runoff.
BK In The News: September 7, 2022
The Bay Area is experiencing a harmful red tide, which peaked in August, yet still lingers in September.
The tell-tale signs are tea-colored water, foul odors and dead fish. Check, check and check.
A phytoplankton, named Heterosigma akashiwo, is the culprit behind this phenomenon. Heterosigma...
BK In The News: September 5, 2022
After an unprecedented harmful algae bloom first turned San Francisco Bay a murky brown color and then littered its shores with dead fish, many people assumed it was yet another climate disaster to add to the list, along with extreme drought, wildfires and heat waves. While scientists suspect...
BK In The News: September 4, 2022
Interview with Baykeeper's senior scientist, Jon Rosenfield: Scientists are warning that the massive fish die-off due to the algae bloom in the San Francisco Bay is just the beginning. Terry McSweeney talks to Jon Rosenfield with San Francisco Baykeeper on this new warning.
BK In The News: August 30, 2022
The red algae bloom in the San Francisco Bay killing hundreds, if not thousands, of fish since last week likely won't end for at least a couple weeks, as the warm weather gets hotter going into Labor Day weekend, according to experts.
BK In The News: August 29, 2022
NBC Bay Area's Raj Mathai speaks with the executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, a nonprofit keeping track of a deadly algal bloom in the San Francisco Bay.
BK In The News: August 29, 2022
Thousands of fish are dying and washing ashore around Oakland's Lake Merritt and other parts of the San Francisco Bay.
What's happening: Environmental groups believe the algae bloom — first spotted near Alameda in late July — is to blame. The Bay's water has since turned brownish-red in color.
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BK In The News: August 29, 2022
Baykeeper senior scientist Jon Rosenfield says nutrients released into the water from the 40 waste water treatment plants around the Bay Area are super charging the algae to reproduce in huge quantities.
"(They) are constantly dumping treated waste water effluent into the bay. That is what they are...
BK In The News: August 29, 2022
Thousands of dead fish are piling up around Lake Merritt in Oakland due to a harmful algae bloom impacting the San Francisco Bay.
Topsmelt, bass and bat rays were among the dead fish that appeared along the lake’s shoreline over the weekend, according to environmental groups.
“I have not seen this...