"Toxins concentrate in surface scums during calm weather," NOAA warned. "People and pets should not swim in areas with scum." ...

Lake Okeechobee is the largest lake in Florida and the second largest in the Southeastern United States. Over the past two ...

Blue-green algae is known to emit toxins which can cause skin irritation in humans, or stomach upsets if a lot of affected ...

Lake Erie, the fourth largest in the complex of five Great Lakes of North America, is struggling with extensive blue-green ...

Just days after the White Oak Pond Watershed Association filed a $100,000 grant application with the state to create a ...

Lake Erie in North America has been overtaken by toxin-producing algae, as shown in photos taken from space. The lake has ...

Lake Erie, the fourth largest of the five Great Lakes of North America, is struggling with extensive blue-green algae blooms.

The bloom has lingered in the area since last Friday and is blue or green. The bloom is dominated by Microcystis, which produce microcystin that can cause adverse health effects in people and pets ...

The study comes from Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, which found that nitrogen ...

The reported algae bloom is dominated by Microcystis and appears bright green, but when it decays, the color can change to a milky blue and even produce a strong odor. One resident who has lived ...

“We will continue to monitor for increasing densities of those species of blue-green algae that are known to produce biotoxins, with anabaena flos-aquae and microcystis being the most common ...

California water officials plan to dye McLeod Lake in downtown Stockton starting Monday to study the cause of the waterfront’s notorious harmful algae, a city news release said. Through Friday ...