Lake Erie, had something concerning. In August 2024, NASA’s Landsat-9 satellite captured a huge, bright green algae bloom spreading across part of Lake Erie. This bloom covered nearly 320 square ...

New research from Africa's Lake Victoria has revealed critical clues about toxic algal blooms and their potential impact on ...

When populations of tiny aquatic organisms called cyanobacteria (formerly known as blue-green algae) explode, their toxic ...

Scientists expect 'significant' algae bloom on Lake Erie Algal blooms are caused when algae grows quickly in water systems from excess nutrient runoff, like phosphorus or nitrogen from fertilizer.

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One of the main efforts of researchers and students is to mitigate Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms that release toxins. Researchers work to inform the public so we can better understand how to ...

Research on Kenya's Lake Victoria's Winam Gulf, a potential model for Lake Erie, reveals year-round harmful algal blooms dominated by cyanobacteria like Dolichospermum, Microcystis, and Planktothrix.

The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science reported that the 2024 western Lake Erie cyanobacterial bloom had a severity ...

As Harel and his team spread Lake Guard in bodies of water around the world, he noticed that the cells that made up the harmful algal bloom were not just dying, but they were sinking into the ...

MERHAB-LGL is a multidisciplary program to develop monitoring strategies for harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the Lake Champlain watersheds. The five US/Canadian Great Lakes contain ...

To try to understand how harmful algal blooms might evolve in Lake Erie in a warming climate, University of Michigan scientists helped conduct a survey of cyanobacteria in a gulf of Kenya's Lake ...