The Army Corps of Engineers released over 54.29 billion gallons of water into the St. Lucie River from Dec. 7 through Jan. 23 ...

Lakes, natural and man-made, provide water, food and habitats for wildlife, and also support local economies. Around the ...

Hikers in New Zealand risk polluting the “clearest lake in the world” with a microscopic alga carried on their boots.

Catawba County is being asked to pay about $96,000 over four years to stop the algae, according to the Hickory Daily Record.

DOH says coastal residents should keep their window and doors closed and use air conditioning instead of the sea breeze to ...

The Lee County area is the hot spot now, according to recent state reports, which show high toxicity counts here. Fish and marine mammal kills can start once levels reach 10,000 cells per liter.

LOCAR is a proposed reservoir to hold 65.17 billion gallons of Lake Okeechobee water, some of which gets discharged to the St ...

The vast majority of the water flowing into the St. Lucie Estuary is from local communities — not Lake Okeechobee.' ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A ...

One group of microbes that preserve very well in lake sediments is the diatoms. These single-celled algae have delicately ornamented cell walls, of which each species is characterized by its distinct ...