Health officials are warning those swimming, fishing and boating on the northern arm of Hayden Lake near Sportsman's Park of an algae bloom that can cause serious sickness in people and pets. The ...

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

By sequencing DNA from a bloom near Barker’s Island in Superior last fall, researchers linked the toxins to Microcystis aeruginosa. The Minnesota Sea Grant called it a “breakthrough discovery.” ...

A potent toxin produced by bright-green blooms of freshwater bacteria has been flowing into the ocean and poisoning sea otters.

In fact, the Microcystis algae, which is the kind that currently causes the most problems in Lake Erie, was genetically very similar between the two lakes. “That’s important because the genomes really ...

The research paper, “Intraspecific divergence within Microcystis aeruginosa mediates the dynamics of freshwater harmful algal blooms under climate warming scenarios,” was published Feb. 5, 2025, in ...

Fragmentation of Large Microcystis Colonies Occurs through Erosion A culture of Microcystis strain V163 was filtered to collect large colonies, and colonies on the filter were subsequently ...

Cyanobacteria blooms (or water blooms) at a water surface of dams or lakes are caused by eutrophia of the water, and have caused serious environmental problems all over the world. Effects of pulsed ...

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 ...

Microcystis algae blooms are made from a recipe largely of nitrogen and phosphorous. The cyanobacteria thrives in waters like lakes and ponds, blooming during warm summer months before hunkering down ...

Such forces that act in this colloidal system formed by Microcystis spp. were analyzed in terms of their mutual interaction and their interaction with porous environments in double filtration at the ...

Researchers reporting in ACS ES&T Water have coated a floating sponge in a charcoal-like powder, and when paired with an oxidizing agent, the technique destroyed over 85% of algal cells from lake and ...