Ypsilanti Township — The Washtenaw County Health Department is recommending people avoid swallowing water from Ford Lake or having contact with scum or green water formed there, the department ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A satellite image from Aug. 13, 2024, shows an algal bloom covering approximately 320 square miles (830 square km) of Lake Erie.

TOLEDO, OH — A new study of Lake Erie beach sand shows that toxins deposited on the shoreline by annual summer algae blooms can stick around for a while. According to a new study in the Journal of ...

On a warm late-summer evening, a small speedboat motored across a pea-green stretch of Lake Erie past a beach where a child sat splashing and a pair of newlyweds waded for a portrait photographer. On ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — There’s not much to like about blue-green algae. The algal blooms stink, they can shut down beaches and they pose a health threat for people and pets alike. A research ...

BALDWIN — District Health Department #10 has lifted the harmful algae bloom advisory for the North Lake Public Access Site in Lake County, issued July 30 in cooperation with the Michigan Department of ...

TOLEDO, OH — The annual harmful algae bloom in Lake Erie should be milder this summer than last, say forecasters who highlighted decreases in a type of key nutrient driving the icky phenomenon as an ...