The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is warning that algal blooms create toxins that can lead to negative side effects to people and pets.

These can range from minor symptoms like a sore throat to more serious ones like abdominal pain, severe dizziness and liver damage.These cyanobacteria blooms grow extremely well in water and contain ...

Not long after elevated E. coli levels closed beaches and bodies of water at Lake of the Woods in Orange County, harmful ...

A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...

Increasing environmental events driven by climate change and human activity exacerbate allergy and asthma conditions, further compounded by exposure to persistent pollutants like per-and ...

Dr Close also spoke to the role of climate change in the ongoing algal bloom, while urging South Australians to continue to report marine life deaths to FISHWATCH. “What we’re experiencing at the ...

When hurricanes go through shallow sea grass areas they pick up nutrients in the sentiment that get re-suspended into the water column and could cause an algae bloom that blocks light from filtering ...

Not much attention is paid to plankton because these creatures are usually hidden from sight. They are mostly microscopic in size and live in aquatic environments, but human lives are intricately ...

Several Massachusetts beaches are currently closed due to bacterial contamination and harmful cyanobacteria blooms, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Interactive Beach Water ...

South Australia's seafood industry is bracing for the long-term impact of the state's toxic algal bloom, which could linger for at least another year.Environment Minister Susan Close revealed today ...