Everything you need to know about toxic algae blooms
Green pond scum floating on a lake is not just unsightly. As animal lovers have learned the hard way, it can be deadly.
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Small animals with big impact
Copepods, the world's most common animal, release unique substances into the oceans. Concentrations of these substances are high enough to affect the marine food web, according to new research from the University of Gothenburg. ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 8, 2019
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What causes algal blooms, and how we can stop them?
Outbreaks of algae have killed up to a million fish in the Murray Darling Basin over the last two weeks. The phenomena of "algae blooms", when the population of algae in a river rapidly grows and dies, can be devastating ...
Environment
Jan 10, 2019
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Researchers create more complete picture of freshwater toxic algal blooms
Using two different measurement methods, researchers from North Carolina State University conducted a two-year study of North Carolina's Jordan Lake in which they monitored toxic algal blooms. The researchers found that multiple ...
Environment
Feb 28, 2018
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New book warns climate change is making us sick
In 2008, Jay Lemery, MD, an emergency physician in Colorado, read a commentary about the effects of global climate change on human health. The author was Paul Auerbach, MD, professor of emergency medicine at Stanford and ...
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Sep 21, 2017
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What causes algal blooms to become toxic?
The disastrous 2015-16 Dungeness crab season, delayed and shortened by an unprecedented bloom of toxic algae, is a bitter memory for the West Coast fishing industry. The culprit was domoic acid, a potent neurotoxin produced ...
Environment
Aug 23, 2017
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How satellite data led to a breakthrough for Lake Erie toxic algal blooms
With the growing frequency and magnitude of toxic freshwater algal blooms becoming an increasingly worrisome public health concern, Carnegie scientists Jeff Ho and Anna Michalak, along with colleagues, have made new advances ...
Environment
May 15, 2017
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Public willing to pay to reduce toxic algae—but maybe not enough
Scientists have found good strategies for curbing the toxic algae blooms that have threatened some of the nation's water supplies. Farmers are willing to adopt these strategies. The American public is willing to help pay ...
Environment
Dec 12, 2016
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Toxic waters and climate change—how are they linked?
It is imperative that society learn more about how climate change contributes to episodic and very severe water quality impairments, such as the harmful algal bloom that caused Florida to declare a state of emergency earlier ...
Environment
Jul 20, 2016
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Cleaning up decades of phosphorus pollution in lakes
Phosphorus is the biggest cause of water quality degradation worldwide, causing 'dead zones', toxic algal blooms, a loss of biodiversity and increased health risks for the plants, animals and humans that come in contact with ...
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Jun 6, 2016
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