The summer algae blooms are disease vectors for avian botulism that finds its way into Gobi fish, the small exotic invaders that are overtaking Lake Michigan. Migrating birds, especially loons, feed ...

Others, like the blooms of bottom-dwelling algae along Lake Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, wash up in fetid mats on beaches and can harbor diseases that infect waterfowl. While the ...

Despite increasing threats to Owasco Lake, New York State has halted a years-long effort to strengthen watershed protections, prompting legal action and raising concerns about the future of the region ...

Mr Sewagudde acknowledged that rising pollution levels have significantly increased the cost of making lake water safe for ...

Rising temperatures and changing environmental conditions in the Great Lakes are contributing to harmful algal blooms, and ...

The action is in response to an increase in microcystin, a naturally occurring toxin that can form during blooms.

Citizen monitoring and sampling of Canandaigua Lake NY water continues in a race to combat harmful algal blooms. Of late, blooms of varying intensities have been as much a part of the summer and ...