From the Manatee River to Sarasota Bay, 177.8 million gallons of wastewater were released last hurricane season.

Mollusks are filter feeders that typically make water clearer. But zebra and quagga mussels filtered so much plankton from the water that they starved native mussels and fostered harmful algal blooms.

There are lots of bacteria in your fish tank. And, for the most part, this bacteria goes a long way in stabilizing water parameters and ensuring your underwater environment thrives. Unfortunately, ...

The MDEQ has already issued a half dozen water contact advisories this year, recommending beach-goers to avoid the water due ...

The adult sea lions are being found just as rescue centers gear up for saving sea lion pups that typically are found ...

In freshwater environments such as lakes, ponds and streams, a cyanobacterium known as Microcystis aeruginosa is responsible for most toxic harmful algal bloom episodes. While most efforts on ...

Lawmakers will consider a proposal to fund a years-in-the-making plan to carve a channel through Ross Island on the ...

The money would go to Oregon State University to finish designing a channel that would cut through Ross Island. Organizers would need another $8 million to carry out the project.

Just about every summer in recent years, a stretch of the Willamette River south of downtown Portland at Ross Island turns green from a thick layer of toxin-producing algae that grows rapidly in the h ...

(BLOOM) — After months of rehabilitation ... from the University of Florida Marine Animal Rescue and The Florida Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Center in Apollo Beach.

Around the world, though, there's a growing threat to lakes: toxic bacteria which turn the water ... as cyanoHABs (cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms), the scums are harmful to livestock ...