Doing Battle With the Green Monster of Taihu Lake

摘要: TAIHU LAKE, CHINA—As the motorboat glides through a carpet of fetid algae, Hans Paerl leans over the side and scoops up some of the tea-green muck with a plastic sampling bottle. In early June, a bloom of cyanobacteria, also called blue-green algae, fanned out across Taihu, China's third-largest lake. The growth was unchecked when a team led by Paerl, a cyanobacteria expert at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, arrived last month to help colleagues at the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology combat the …