“There will be ebb tide, high tide, ebb tide and high tide ... That made it pretty certain that Red China’s leaders are currently going through their own agonizing foreign policy reappraisal.

DAGUPAN CITY—The coastal waters of Bolinao and Anda towns in western Pangasinan are now under strict surveillance following the detection of red tide toxins linked to a harmful algal bloom.

A singular scene from last year’s red tide event in the Gulf of Mexico sticks in the memory of phytoplankton ecologist Vincent Lovko. “I got to go up in a helicopter with a news crew,” Lovko says.