Cyanobacteria thrive in warm, sunny lakes and ponds that contain excess nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients derived from fertiliser, manure and sewage. When conditions are right, cyanobacteria multiply ...

First a river ran blood red. The outbreak comes a week after a stream running through a town near Buenos Aires turned blood ...

Officials are hoping you may not have to worry about toxic blue-green algae in Lake Norman with the help of a four-year ...

A prolonged red tide in 2018 lasted over 10 months. During this period red tide was extreme, killing thousands of fish in ...

Catawba County and other lake-bordering counties are being asked to pay $96,547 to treat lyngbya in Lake Norman.

For International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum’s Ocean Portal spoke with “Her Deepness” about science, seaweed ...

The idyllic Boracay Island beach was empty of tourists as it turned green from algal bloom. Footage shows the usual crystal clear shores now covered with a thick layer of dark green algae in Aklan, ...

The newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum possesses a potentially highly flexible cell wall: When water is ...

When the summer sun shines and temperatures climb, conditions are ripe for Minnesota lakes to produce harmful algal blooms. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency reminded people this week that some ...

This essay is a follow up on the photograph published in the Jan. 16 Commonwealth (pictured above) that showed duckweed ...

Researchers from the University of Bayreuth and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen have investigated the movement patterns of unicellular, hydrogen-producing ...