What first seems like some type of unsettling waterborne disease is simply an algal bloom. Algal blooms occur when microalgal ...

Toxic algae blooms can be deadly, ... However, they lack roots, leaves and other characteristic components of plants. Blue-green algae, which is responsible for half of the oxygen on our planet.

Researchers with the University of Toledo say carbonized corncobs can help clean drinking water contaminated from harmful ...

A popular river spot in Winamac closed for several days after an unexpected problem plagued the Tippecanoe River.IDEM identified a blue-green algae bloom.The bl ...

In coastal communities across the planet, algae blooms and dead zones are increasing in frequency and magnitude, due, in part, to human activities and climate change. These ecological threats ...

Woodcliff Lake now has four new floating wetland islands to eliminate algae in one of Veolia North America's reservoirs along the Hackensack River.

These blooms deplete waters of oxygen, causing mass die-offs of plant and animal life. Some harmful algal blooms release toxins deadly enough to kill fish, birds and mammals, even humans in rare ...

Not only does Dapis algae emit a sewage-like stench as it starts to decompose, but exposure to the bloom can cause skin problems, respiratory trouble, itchy eyes, throat irritation and other ailments.

Water quality quickly improved, dead zones shrank, and harmful algal blooms became less frequent. But the scourges of low-oxygen waters and sometimes-toxic algae reappeared in the mid-1990s.