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

Mattoon Bagelfest will still go forward as planned this week and weekend despite the city being under a "Do Not Drink" alert ...

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.

On July 15, 2025, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality's monitoring team identified harmful algae in the water at Baker Reservoir, in Washington County. The monitoring team saw visible signs ...

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 ...

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

City officials are cheering the lifting of the "no drink" alert for Mattoon's tap water and praising the teamwork that the ...

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.

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

Tiny organisms, big impacts. Algae and cyanobacteria – often called blue-green algae – are simple, plantlike organisms that live in water. They can grow out of control, or “bloom ...