Smoke from the Black Summer fires created an algal bloom bigger than Australia in the Southern Ocean
- Written by Christina Schallenberg, Research Fellow, University of Tasmania
Himawari-8, Author providedIn 2019 and 2020, bushfires razed more than 18 million hectares of land in Australia. For weeks, smoke choked major cities, leading to almost 450 deaths, and even circumnavigated the southern hemisphere.
As the aerosols billowed across the oceans many thousands of kilometres away from the fires, microscopic marine algae...
