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Nutrient Pollution

Factsheet: Climate Change and Harmful Algal Blooms

This fact sheet describes how climate change will impact the growth and occurrence of harmful algal blooms, or HABs.

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Climate Change and Harmful Algal Blooms Fact Sheet (PDF)(3 pp, 176 K)