An essential element, and a vital nutrient for crop and plant growth, excessive phosphorus in waterways can help fuel the toxic algal blooms that have plagued Lake Erie for decades. A significant ...

While commonly associated with the summer, algal blooms can also persist into the fall. As of late October 2024, blooms were ...

Lake Erie, had something concerning. In August 2024, NASA’s Landsat-9 satellite captured a huge, bright green algae bloom spreading across part of Lake Erie. This bloom covered nearly 320 square ...

CLEVELAND — Research scientists who track the annual harmful algal blooms on Lake Erie have come up with a final assessment for 2024. The bloom this year was moderately severe. The bloom came in ...

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Removing nutrients from Lake Erie reduces harmful algal blooms and low-oxygen "dead zones," but may also impact food supplies ...

Nancy Goucher receives funding from ECCC and is on the board of Freshwater Future Canada. University of Waterloo provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of ...

A thick harmful algal bloom (HAB) is seen in a boat’s wake near Davis- Besse Nuclear Power Station on Aug. 13. In the final analysis, NOAA rated this year’s bloom on Lake Erie with a severity index of ...

While commonly associated with the summer, algal blooms can also persist into the fall. As of late October 2024, blooms were still present along the southern shores of Lake Erie. In the warm ...

While algal blooms are an annual occurrence in places like the western basin of Lake Erie and parts of Lake Ontario, research suggests that they will appear more frequently in both small and large ...