For decades agricultural waste and manure was dumped into this lake, which has caused issues for the city today.

The algae, which also can resemble spilled paint, globs or surface streaks, can be described by the highly unscientific yet apt description of what these citizen scientists are looking for is yucky.

Winter brought a colder and icier season to the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, which saw a near-complete ice cover in ...

We are now in the middle of the summer recreational season on Chautauqua Lake, and lake algae and plants are topics of discussion by many. A recent conference organized by Chautauqua Institution ...

Nearly 75 billion gallons of water has flowed into the St. Lucie River through the St. Lucie Lock & Dam since Lake Okeechobee ...

Riley Rackliffe follows the stinky green blobs as they travel across Lake Mohave. The aquatic biologist leads a two-man team for the National Park Service, dipping a long stick into the reservoir ...

And so are the citizen scientists. Napolitano and neighbor Lynn Klotz were charter citizen scientists as part of the ...