Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora has issued a health warning after potentially toxic algae (planktonic cyanobacteria) was found in Lake Hood People should avoid the lake and animals, particularly ...

The agency has requested all pet parents to keep an eye out for floating algal mats and keep their beloved furry companions out of the water whenever possible. Algae can start producing ...

The Virginia Department of Health’s (VDH) algal mat alert spans approximately 11 miles of the river from Deer Rapids to the ...

In addition to algal blooms, monitoring teams have also detected benthic algal mats in several bodies of water, which can be especially dangerous to children and animals. "The problem with harmful ...

Red alert level warnings are in place for Te Awa Kairangi/Hutt River at Silverstream due to high levels of toxic algae.

I spoke with them about how they got interested in slimy algal mats, the impacts of ecotourism, and what all this has to do with climate change. This Q&A has been edited for length and clarity. Gabi ...

Others, like the blooms of bottom-dwelling algae along Lake Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, wash up in fetid mats on beaches and can harbor diseases that infect waterfowl. While the ...

But harmful blooms are sometimes said to look like pea soup, green paint, or floating mats of scum, and they often have a bad odor. “You don’t have to be an expert to recognize an algae bloom ...

I’ve been told that Friends of Ellicott posts advisories pertaining to the algal blooms (fueled by nutrient ... we recommend avoiding contact with floating mats, scums and discolored water.

Like coral reefs, the algae mats are critical habitats and mahi-mahi, tuna, billfish, eels, shrimp, crabs and sea turtles all use the algae to spawn, feed or hide from predators. But some ...