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Environmental

NOAA, Partners Predict Significant Harmful Algal Bloom in Western Lake Erie This Summer

by Gary Kopycinski on July 3, 2013

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Satellite image of 2011 bloom (the most severe in decades).

Satellite image of 2011 bloom (the most severe in decades). Download here
(Credit: MERIS/NASA; processed by NOAA/NOS/NCCOS )