Toxic Red Tide threatens Florida beaches and marine life.

Tons of fish killed by toxic red tide off African coast in 2014

The Weather Channel is reporting that a massive toxic red tide is killing marine life off the coast of Florida. According to the Weather Channel, the large blooms of red algae are located about five miles off St. Petersburg and measure an astonishing 60 miles wide by 100 miles long.

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Scientists think Red Tide may be cause of mass jumbo squid suicides in California

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Thousands of jumbo squid have purposely beached themselves in Monterey Bay located in central California in an apparent “mass suicide” and now researchers think they may know why. Mass jumbo squid have flung themselves ashore many times in the past decades but until know, scientists have not known why. Now researchers at Stanford University’s Hopkins…

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