When the summer sun shines and temperatures climb, conditions are ripe for Minnesota lakes to produce harmful algal blooms. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency reminded people this week that some ...

Harmful algal blooms, sometimes called HABs, occur when algae grow out of control. Algae are photosynthetic organisms that ...

A 28-year study of phytoplankton interactions in Chilean coastal waters found that salinity, more than temperature, ...

As more waterways contend with algae blooms and pollution caused by minerals from agricultural ... and in previous iterations has successfully pulled lead from water, and microplastics and oil from ...

Weekly data on beach water quality is from the Florida Department of Health. Red tide and algal bloom data are from FWC. Red ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

“It’s causing toxic algae blooms in various parts of the lakes,” he said. “It’s causing huge rural water quality problems, groundwater contamination.” Outside of water ...