Microscopic ... and the U.S. West Coast—as well as freshwater systems like the Great Lakes—are no strangers to enormous algae blooms that can turn the water green or red.

From brilliantly colored blobs to miniature monsters adorned with tentacles and gigantic eyes, every drop of H2O, be it freshwater or seawater, hums with microscopic life most of us have never seen.

According to Pet Poison Helpline, Blue-Green Algae are microscopic bacteria found in freshwater lakes, streams, ponds and brackish water ecosystems that can produce toxins. “It only took one ...

Scientists from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences found forty new freshwater viruses ... at a time when microscopic algae grow rapidly in the water. They knew that thanks to ...