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Melbourne, Jan 6 (IANS) Scientists say a bioluminescent bloom lighting up the southeast coastline of Australia’s island state of Tasmania, with red tides by day and blue glows by night, stems from climate-driven ocean warming, not pollution from nearby salmon farms.The glow, reappearing almost a year after a similar event, is caused by Noctiluca scintillans, a bioluminescent marine plankton that feeds on microscopic algae and rises to the surface when it dies, creating red slicks that illuminate…