Red Tide In Yellow Sea Rolls In As Beijing Countdown To The Olympic Games Starts

Posted 2 min ago by KJ (momentsintime) in Sports As the city of Qingdao in China prepares to host the sailing regatta for the Olympics thousands of people are in force to clear an algae bloom that could impede the competitions. There is an all out effort to clear up the algae by the middle of July in Qingdao with as many as 20,000 people working on the project. There are 1,000 boats scooping the algae out of the Yellow Sea. Xinhua, the official news agency in China reports that a third of the waters that are expected to be used during the games are covered in the algae. The condition of water quality has been a large concern for the sailing events for some time. One of those concerns is that many of China's coastal cities dump untreated sewage into the sea. There are also often high levels of nitrates from runoff waters from... [read full story]