The proliferations have become increasingly common in recent years and can have health and economic impacts in affected areas.

Scott Martin is a professional angler who has Lake Okeechobee water flowing through his veins. He recently took me out on the ...

FIRST AT 530, A NEW WEAPON AGAINST HARMFUL ALGAE BLOOMS. RESEARCHERS AT FLORIDA ... the researchers collected cyanobacterial biomass from Lake Okeechobee in Florida and used a fast-heating method ...

However there are also many many samples showing that the harmful algae was not present at many local ... several weeks and ...

Often, these algae blooms produce toxins at extremely dangerous levels, as was observed in Clear Lake, California, in 2014 and in Lake Okeechobee, Florida, in 2021, prompting advisories warning ...