Wisconsin Public Radio Researchers have identified a species of blue-green algae in the Duluth-Superior harbor that’s capable ...

Knowing this, they hope to better understand, detect and predict when a bloom might occur, or even trace the algae to a ...

Researchers studying harmful algal blooms in the St. Louis River Estuary that separates Minnesota and Wisconsin have made a breakthrough discovery: for the first time, they've linked a known ...

"Microcystis literally means small cell, but numerous cells cluster together in colonies that can float to the surface to form scums," said Orlando Sarnelle, a professor emeritus with the ...

Trout began popping belly up to the green pea soup surface of the Lower Withlacoochee River over the weekend, according to ...

Lake Okeechobee is the largest lake in Florida and the second largest in the Southeastern United States. Over the past two decades, blooms of blue-green algae (Microcystis) have emerged in the ...

In these phosphorus-rich tropical lakes, the shallowest study sites were most conducive to the development of large standing crops of Microcystis and high MC concentrations. The environmental ...

image: Summer Microcystis bloom in Castle Rock Pond, Norman, Oklahoma. view more Credit: Haiyuan Cai. Harmful algal blooms create challenges around the globe for water quality and health risk ...

And microcystis is something they don't like," Dr. Hank Vanderploeg said. He is Branch Chief at NOAA's Great Lake Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor. That's right: ...

Algae floating on Lake Erie seeped into the City of Toledo's water supply, forcing a region-wide water ban. AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari With the water ban lifted, more than 400,000 people in the ...