Eden Prairie officials have temporarily closed a beach due to the presence of blue-green algae, the city said in a news ...

Eden Prairie officials have closed Riley Lake Beach after the discovery of blue-green algae, which poses a risk to humans and pets.

It’s a seasonal threat that shows up year after year—harmful algal blooms clouding the waters of New York’s lakes — and now ...

NOAA has detected levels of the harmful toxin, microcystin, in Lake Erie weeks earlier than it is usually detected in routine ...

Local beachgoers know to stay out of the water when the pea-green expanse of a harmful algal bloom settles into Maumee Bay.

University of Michigan researchers said they have identified the specific cyanobacteria responsible for harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie.The team sequenced the DNA present in samples of water taken ...

That's what scientists continue to do each year for Lake Erie — specifically the western basin — as it relates to summer algal blooms. Based on two months of spring data collected across ...

Lake Erie's harmful algal blooms have started sooner and had longer peak periods over the past decade compared to earlier years, newly released data shows. Warming temperatures linked to climate ...

Credit: REUTERS/Joshua Lott Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms have started sooner and had longer peak periods over the past decade compared to earlier years, newly released data shows.

TOLEDO, Ohio — A harmful algal bloom started developing on Lake Erie in July as temperatures climbed and phosphorous runoff and nutrient levels increased in the water. Several weeks of algae ...

Lake Erie’s blooms consist of blue-green algae or cyanobacteria, which can produce a liver toxin called microcystin that is harmful to humans and animals. The level of toxicity at a given time ...