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The dark side of Oman’s night-time bioluminescence

‘Sea sparkle’ bedazzles in the dark but is responsible for a reeking green carpet of algae by day
A sample of bioluminescent Noctiluca scintillans. Scientists are working with Omani authorities to try to halt its spread, including through developing early warning systems

It’s one of the most magical phenomena in nature — night-time bioluminescence, an unearthly blue sparkle that illuminates breaking waves and smears twinkling light across the shore, as if all the stars in the universe had been condensed into a celestial paste.

But where an untrained eye enjoys an enchanting light show, scientist Joaquim Goes sees an alarming and mysterious organism. It’s one he has chronicled for two and a half decades and whose extraordinary rise in the Arabian Sea, his research has found, is linked to climate change.

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