in western Lake Erie this summer, causing concern that swimmers and pets might unknowingly become exposed to toxic blue-green ...

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 miles of the lake with toxic blue ...

There are some alarming parallels between the harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Kenya's Lake Victoria and those ... Cyanobacteria, often called blue-green algae, are microorganisms that thrive ...

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

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Blue-green algae also harms the Lake Erie ecosystem. As the cyanobacteria die, they settle to the bottom of the lake, creating a feast for microbes that consume oxygen as they devour the remains. That ...

To try to understand how harmful algal blooms might evolve in Lake Erie in a warming climate ... they can form clouds of green algae called cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, or cyanoHABs.

The lake in particular has been besieged by nutrient pollution for decades, causing unprecedented blooms of blue-green algae. Also known as cyanobacteria, blue-green algae produce cyanotoxins, which ...