Egyptians express concern after beaches turn green in Port Said
Many feared it as a sign of something serious, following the Moroccan earthquake and Storm Daniel in Libya.
The Dean of the Faculty of Science at Port Said University, Farid Ibrahim al-Desouki, clarified the reasons behind the strange event after commissioning the Department of Marine Sciences to investigate the cause.
Their examinations revealed the phenomenon as being a sudden gathering of green algae, scientifically known as an “algal bloom,” typically resulting from high temperatures, an increase in organic nutrients, greater intensity of sea currents, and other factors.