Diggers load up trucks to carry away the algae in the city of Qingdao, China. According to local government officials, 170,000 tons of algae have already been cleared away. “It's an interesting and challenging place to sail.”Michael Jones, Austrialian sailing program director Thousands of volunteers are helping to manually scoop the green algae out of the sea. Experts say the Enteromorpha prolifera algae was flushed into Qingdao city waters by southerly winds and ocean currents. "It's like a bad episode of Poltergeist," says U.S. Olympic windsurfer Benjamin Barger. "The green stuff will get on the board and you'll slip off. It's pretty nasty." Morning Edition, July 3, 2008 · When China's leaders boasted they would host a green Olympics, they surely did not envision an entire coastline blanketed in great swaths of bright green...
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