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HORIZON: KILLER ALGAE
(2001)
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Production countries
- Great Britain
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Relates how in the late 1980s, French marine biologist Prof Alexandre Meinesz of the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis first detected the spread of a new species of algae off the coast of Monaco. The algae (Caulerpa taxifolia), which is prolific and vigorous, drives out all other marine life and is so toxic no native creature can eat it. Colonies of the...
Top five credits
- Production Company
- Cinécontact
- Commissioning Company
- BBC Science
- Producer
- DAVIDSON, Nick
- Series Editor
- LERNER, Bettina
- Narrator
- GWYNNE, Haydn