MARTIN COUNTY — The toxic blue-green algae blooms are gone, but the effects may not be. The Ocean Research & Conservation Association wants to find out if fish people eat from the St. Lucie River and ...

Microalgae are widely used in products such as biofuels, nutritional supplements and cosmetics. A newly-described type has been found in a home aquarium – and it could prove to be particularly useful.

To sea lions, an anchovy represents little more than a bite of dinner. In a strange turn of events, microscopic algae have enabled some anchovies to bite back—albeit posthumously. A new study ...

The red algae bloom in the San Francisco Bay killing hundreds, if not thousands, of fish since last week likely won't end for at least a couple weeks, as the warm weather gets hotter going into Labor ...

People walking past Lake Isaac Waterfowl Sanctuary for the last week and a half have been greeted with an unpleasant odor. If they investigated the source of the smell, they would have found hundreds ...

This article was originally featured on High Country News. Lake Merritt, in the center of Oakland, California, is a tidal estuary connected to the Pacific Ocean. It usually teems with life, both human ...

Neurotoxin levels were highest in the dolphins stranded during warmer months, when harmful algal blooms are more severe.

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The Maryland Department of the Environment says algae may be responsible for a large-scale fish kill in the upper Middle River and several of the river's tributaries in Baltimore County.The department ...