Undiagnosed -- Tanzania
Zanzibar, one of the world's largest producers of seaweed, is unable to increase production because of a mystery disease thought to be caused by warming oceans. About 24 000 households grow seaweed on the island.
Juma Ali Juma, Zanzibar fisheries ministry, said, "Because of climate change, the water temperature is heating yet the seaweed needs cool water. So it has developed a sort of disease for which we are now undertaking research."
The world's oceans are warmer than at any point in
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