The Charles River Watershed Association said it marks the river’s first significant bloom in four years.Cyanobacteria, also ...

The Walworth County Division of Public Health, in partnership with the Geneva Lake Environmental Agency and the city of Lake Geneva, has officially closed Riviera Beach. The Big Foot Beach State Park ...

That problem is lyngbya, or blue-green algae that can cause sickness for people and pets who come in contact with it. It only ...

"Toxins concentrate in surface scums during calm weather," NOAA warned. "People and pets should not swim in areas with scum." ...

Orlando Bloom dropped 52 pounds in just three months to play a retired boxer who goes to scary extremes to lose weight in order to compete again in the upcoming drama “The Cut.” Losing the ...

This summer was hot and water levels in many places were low. Those are ripe conditions for harmful algal blooms. But state environmental regulators say reports of blooms are lower than previous years ...

a marine ecologist who studies algal blooms at Florida Gulf Coast University, revealed that levels of water samples showed higher than normal levels of a type of seafloor-dwelling dinoflagellate ...

Melvern Outlet Swim Pond is under a watch advisory, which means blue-green algae have been detected and a harmful algal bloom is present or likely to develop. People are encouraged to avoid areas of ...

Avoid eating any shellfish if you think a harmful algal bloom is present. Get medical help if you, a child, a pet or livestock becomes sick after going into the water or after ingesting any mat ...

Dr. Kevin Washburn, a veterinarian with Texas A&M, says the algae found is pretty common. “It’s usually not harmful until it undergoes a bloom ... right into the pond full of nutrients ...