There is "significant" evidence that occupied reefs in Spratly Islands are being damaged by "excess nutrients," according to a report by Simularity, a company that specializes in geospatial analysis and provides satellite data imagery.
A long-running territorial standoff over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea has seen vessels dumping enough raw sewage to threaten the marine ecosystem there and the degradation is extensive enough to be seen from space. On July 12, U.S.-based geospatial tech company Simularity released satellite images showing a conflagration of algal blooms […]