Beautiful but disturbing image of the eerie blue glow in the waters around Hong Kong, caused by pollution. The blue glow is an indicator of a harmful algal bloom, Noctiluca Scintillans, nicknamed Sea Sparkle. The single cell organism can function as both animal and plant.
And on the subject of humans behaving like we have another planet to move to when we've completely ruined this one, here are some shocking photos of pollution in China (including the one below of a journalist taking a sample of the red water in the Jianhe River in Luoyang, Henan province in December 2011) on the Bored Panda website: http://www.boredpanda.com/pollution-china/
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