Runoff from thousands of heartland farms, which often contains large amounts of fertilizer and other nutrients plankton love, often turbocharges these algae blooms when it reaches the Gulf.
Marine life care centers across Southern California are reporting a surge in the number of stranded dolphins and sick seals, ...
A state environmental agency on Friday confirmed the presence of an algal bloom along a Homosassa River canal where the ...
Domoic acid, a potent neurotoxin produced by algae, has been killing sea lions and dolphins along California’s coastline for ...
University of South Florida researchers have discovered connections between certain viruses and red tide blooms ... is naturally present in the the Gulf of Mexico, now designated as the "Gulf ...
Karenia brevis is a naturally occurring, single-celled organism belonging to a group of algae called ... causing blooms to be called "red tides." K. brevis is found almost exclusively in the Gulf of ...
"We know that viruses play an important role in the dynamics of harmful algal ... a severe bloom in 2021. The red tide event was the worst in recent memory along Florida’s Gulf Coast, with ...