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[♪] jon: the toxic red tide that sometimes chokes the florida coast, scientists are using drug overdose that is used for humans to treat animals. reporter: a toxic algae bloom is bleeding into the panl panhandle. commonly known as red tide, it's having a devastating effect. researchers are fighting back with a new medical treatment given directly to the sea life, offering hope to the problem spreading around the world. >> they bind heavily to fat.

[♪] jon: the toxic red tide that sometimes chokes the florida coast, scientists are using drug overdose that is used for humans to treat animals. reporter: a toxic algae bloom is bleeding into the panl panhandle. commonly known as red tide, it's having a devastating effect. researchers are fighting back with a new medical treatment given directly to the sea life, offering hope to the problem spreading around the world. >> they bind heavily to fat.

Seven fold. and all of ended up off the mississippi gulf coast. >> we had the largest number of dolphins die, about 143 dolphins and about 195 sea turtle. >> and what is killing the dolphins? >> primary factor is the river water coming through the spillway, it has mud, clay, insecticides, pesticides, fertilizers, which creates toxic allege gi blo algae blooms. this is fresh water lesions, and these salt he water animals are exposed for a long period of time to fresh water. >> and the trump administration this week shut down efforts by california and major automakers to raise emissions standard...

Bite trends since the '90s he found way up in the arctic circle stings from yellow jacket wasps jumped in five years. >> so the queens are surviving so the more queens the more colonies. the more the more colonies the more yellow jackets. >> and the fish. while bristol bay saw another epic salmon run more and more streams are just too hot for the fish to spawn. >> temperatures we saw this summer were what we expected for 2069. >> really? >> we're 50 years ahead of where we thought we would be for stream temperatures. so that's very alarming. >> reporter: meanwhile, out at sea this research tea...

Week. nbc news begins a special week-long series climate in crisis. the impacts of climate change that are being felt across the country including one new jersey lake where rapid algae ploom has emerged. here is anna thompson. >> reporter: you don't have to dpoe to where polar bears live to see the impact of climate change. in fact, ducks will do just fine. this is lake in the exotic locale of new jersey. >> i imagine people will go climate change? new jersey? >> reporter: for jessica murphy it's no laughing matter. she got married and spends summers by an algae bloom, restricting swimming sin...