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Algae woes hit China's Olympic sailing host city – China News

news.yahoo.com — With little more than a month to go until the Games, a different challenge is cropping up: A forest of blue-green algae is choking the coastal waters, suffocating beaches and lying in thick layers along sailing routes.

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Chinamatt 3 years 31 weeks ago

Another article about this mentioned that the algae will be shipped to farms and used as animal feed. Is that healthy for the animals and for consumers of those animals?

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