What first seems like some type of unsettling waterborne disease is simply an algal bloom. Algal blooms occur when microalgal ...

Canandaigua Lake may look clear now, but warmer temps and recent weather pattern shifts have experts on alert for harmful ...

In coastal communities across the planet, algae blooms and dead zones are increasing in frequency and magnitude, due, in part, to human activities and climate change. These ecological threats ...

Toxic algae blooms can be deadly, ... However, they lack roots, leaves and other characteristic components of plants. Blue-green algae, which is responsible for half of the oxygen on our planet.

Researchers with the University of Toledo say carbonized corncobs can help clean drinking water contaminated from harmful algal blooms.

Reduced oxygen levels are often a result of large algae blooms. This occurs because the algae is so thick, it blocks sunlight. This causes plants that need that sunlight and produce oxygen to die ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

Every year around this time, as temperatures rise across the country, we see more reports of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in coastal areas from Florida to California. HABs are overgrowths of algae t… ...

The toxins released from algal blooms make it difficult for treatment facilities to remove them safely and efficiently. The City of Auburn, New York draws its drinking water from Owasco Lake.

A flock of brown pelicans was released back into the wild near the Huntington Beach Pier. They had been nursed back to health ...

To help quantify and provide a detailed characterization of bloom occurrence and distribution across the globe, an international group of researchers — including University of Delaware assistant ...

From 2018 to 2023, 42 dogs and 158 humans in California were sickened by harmful algal blooms.. According to the U.S. National Office for Harmful Algae Blooms, cyanobacteria has been documented in ...