A new study links a neurotoxin found in harmful algal blooms in the Indian River Lagoon to brain changes in dolphins there similar to Alzheimer's disease in humans. "The key takeaway is that it's just ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — A federal researcher has found three varieties of toxins from microscopic algae that he says are responsible for the deaths of 111 manatees, 51 dolphins and 300 pelicans in the ...

Florida's hot, wet, sunny, summer months are when toxic algae blooms are most prevalent. That's also when people want to enjoy water activities from swimming to boating to fishing. But toxins in the ...

Have you ever happened across a body of water completely covered in a mysterious green slime? What first seems like some type of unsettling waterborne disease is simply an algal bloom. Algal blooms ...

Quick-growing blooms of bacteria and algae have long been a hazard in lakes and rivers, because of the toxins they produce. Fueled in part by agricultural runoff, these blooms are also threatening ...

As New Yorkers choked through another day of poor air quality – driven by ongoing Canadian wildfires – another environmental threat looms, this one found in the state’s surface waters. The threat of ...