Glowing waters in Australia's Tasmania linked to climate change, not fish-farm waste: scientists

MELBOURNE, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Scientists say a bioluminescent bloom lighting up the southeast coastline of Australia's island state of Tasmania, with red tides by day and blue glows by night, stems from climate-driven ocean warming, not pollution from nearby salmon farms.

The glow, reappearing almost a year after a similar event, is caused by Noctiluca scintillans, a bioluminescent marine plankton that feeds on