Harmful Algal Blooms

A recent study investigates the link between meteorological conditions and harmful algal blooms.

Climate change is a pervasive force in nature. One deadly effect of climate change are more frequently algal blooms.

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Conservation

Wildfires are all over the news, from California to Australia, but do these terrestrial events have any impact on ocean…

Have you ever heard about a harmful algal bloom? Do you know what causes them? Or how scientists monitor them?…

Neurobiology

Polluted water is a great source of food for harmful algal blooms, which release even more toxins into the water.…

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Biology

What do you, a penguin, and an amoeba have in common? You all have to go #2! These researchers from…

Before the late 20th century, reports of illness from toxin-producing algae had been absent from most northern coastlines. But in…

Climate change will produce both winners and losers, but we might not like who ends up winning! New research shows…

Harmful algal blooms are common events that occur in coastal waters. In Florida’s Indian River Lagoon, nutrient groundwater runoff initiates…

Since the late 1990s, human respiratory symptoms have been associated with seasonal blooms of the dinoflagellate Ostropsis cf. ovata along…