{"id":92021,"date":"2019-06-13T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/stunning-but-deadly-chinas-bioluminescent-algal-blooms-are-getting-bigger"},"modified":"2019-06-13T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T22:23:06","slug":"stunning-but-deadly-chinas-bioluminescent-algal-blooms-are-getting-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/stunning-but-deadly-chinas-bioluminescent-algal-blooms-are-getting-bigger","title":{"rendered":"Stunning but Deadly, China\u2019s Bioluminescent Algal Blooms Are Getting Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stunning-but-deadly-chinas-bioluminescent-algal-blooms-are-getting-bigger2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Satellite imagery taken over the past two decades shows that the toxic bioluminescent microorganisms responsible for China\u2019s sparkling blue seas are becoming increasingly abundant.<\/p>\n<p>New <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2019GL082667\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research<\/a> published in Geophysical Research Letters is the first to use satellite data to track algal blooms consisting of red <em>Noctiluca scintillans<\/em> (RNS), a single-celled microorganism that produces the beautiful bioluminescent blue glow known as \u201cblue tears.\u201d These tiny sea creatures prefer coastal waters, especially along the coast of the East China Sea where they appear in the numbers required to produce the spectacular blue glow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/stunning-but-deadly-china-s-bioluminescent-algal-bloom-1835482191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite imagery taken over the past two decades shows that the toxic bioluminescent microorganisms responsible for China\u2019s sparkling blue seas are becoming increasingly abundant. New research published in Geophysical Research Letters is the first to use satellite data to track algal blooms consisting of red Noctiluca scintillans (RNS), a single-celled microorganism that produces the beautiful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}