Last month, researchers began a campaign to eradicate several dozen patches of rogue algae in a California lagoon (SN: 7/15/00, p. 36: Ultimate Sea Weed Loose in America). These Caulerpa taxifolia represent the same aggressive weed, an aquarium-derived mutant, that is smothering life along the Mediterranean seafloor.
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