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 Lake Erie and beyond.

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

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.

A biologist specializing in the preservation of Lake Erie gave students from Lima schools a crash course Tuesday on the history of pollution and conservation efforts at Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga ...

algal blooms may contain toxins or other noxious chemicals that can pose harmful health risks. People or animals may become sick if exposed to these blooms. In extreme cases, dogs and other animals ...

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 ...

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 ...