Beautiful lakeside views can quickly take an ugly turn when the water begins to look like a bucket of green paint. This typically signals the arrival of a harmful algal bloom, which happens when ...

CANANDAIGUA, NY — A year ago June 20, Canandaigua Lake saw the earliest blue-green algae bloom ever recorded. The year before that, a bloom was recorded on June 22, but then not again until late July.

Health officials are warning of toxic blue-green algae blooms in the upriver Caloosahatchee in Southwest Florida. Contact ...

Algae blooms are expanding across the world's oceans. The first global study of floating algae was recently released by researchers at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science and the ...

Jules Leon climbed into a Ford pickup truck fitted with a net, a wheeled crate he calls a “moon buggie” and a defective winch. It was March 18 and Leon was on his way to Redondo Beach — for his third ...

Blue-green algae are booming and blooming across Alberta this summer. And, while that’s causing headaches (literally) for some, it's providing ample opportunity for researchers studying the algal ...

Quick-growing blooms of bacteria and algae have long been a hazard in lakes and rivers, because of the toxins they produce. Fueled in part by agricultural runoff, these blooms are also threatening ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Department of Environmental Conservation warned of a harmful algal bloom that is spreading throughout the Hudson River in parts of Downstate. A scientist with Riverkeeper ...

OCALA NATIONAL FOREST — If a boating trip to Silver Glen Run is in your plans, take note: The Florida Department of Health in Lake County has issued a health alert for the presence of harmful ...