When the Belize-registered Rubymar sank in the Red Sea following a brutal Houthi attack, the vessel went down with 21,000 tons of fertilisers that might trigger massive algal blooms that can build some dead zones for marine life and starve the coral reefs of light.
Along with a slick of leaked fuel, the ammonium phosphate sulfate fertilisers can deliver a severe pulse of nutrients into the waters harbouring marine mammals, rare corals, and reef fish,...