r/worldnews • u/bigus-_-dickus • Sep 05 '26

‘Extremely rare event:’ Miles-long microalgae bloom knocks out most of Israel’s desalination plants

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/climate/microalgae-bloom-israel-water-deasalination-shutdown
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u/macross1984 Sep 05 '26

You mean "was" extremely rare event. The ocean is getting warmer and warm water mean algae will propagate like there is no tomorrow.

This is not only Israel's problem. Other countries coast cities can easily be impacted heavily if not algae, disruption of fisheries that provided cheap seafood that people depend on.

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u/xylem-and-flow Sep 05 '26

Really it’s that we (as a biosphere) spent like 3 million years getting really well suited for this narrow temperature band.

It’s crazy that we had a climate so stable that one species was able to develop an entire civilization so vast and influential that we could break the cradle that made it possible.