Rimini's swimming pools and water
parks are booming amid an infestation of mucilage or plant gum
in the seas off the famed Romagna Riveria resort.
Images of the mucilage, caused by a rise in phytoplankton
associated with global heating, have gone viral after European
satellite Copernicus took a snapshot of the phenomenon on August
7.
The photo captured the vast green flowering of phytoplankton and
the white line of mucilage that snaked along its edge.
The infestation has led many bathers to abandon the beaches and
take to the clean waters of pools and parks instead.
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