Turkey’s Sea Snot Disaster

Turkey’s Sea Snot Disaster

For more than six months, parts of the Sea of Marmara along the coast of Turkey have been covered in a thick layer of mass known as mucilage or “sea snot”.

Pollution, warmer temperatures and other environmental factors appear to have led to a proliferation of phytoplankton, which is releasing an “overabundance of mucus.”

Government workers have been trying to clean up some of the worst affected areas as biologists and environmentalists have voiced their alarm.