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Floating Pest

Water hyacinths may look beautiful, but communities along Lake Victoria are in a constant battle with the fast-spreading plant.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Thomas Albright (University of Nevada, Reno) and Thomas Moorhouse (Egerton Unviversity).

Published October 5, 2014
Data acquired May 17, 2014

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