Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fresh lake swims are a staple of hot summers and something millions of people love and rely on to keep cool. But increasing ...

JUST A FEW GUYS. ALL RIGHT, CHRIS, THANK YOU. WELL, EVERY SUMMER WE SEE REPORTS OF LARGE BLUE GREEN ALGAE BLOOMS IN LAKES OR CANALS ACROSS OUR AREA. THIS TIME IT’S IN A PORTION OF LAKE OKEECHOBEE.

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

Quick-growing blooms of bacteria and algae have long been a hazard in lakes and rivers, because of the toxins they produce. Fueled in part by agricultural runoff, these blooms are also threatening ...

Noelle Held, a USC microbiologist and oceanographer, collects a water sample at Surfrider Beach on June 1. (Hon Wing Chiu / For The Times) When scores of dead and dying sea animals began washing up on ...

Dangerous concentrations of algae such as "red tides" have been consistently emerging in locations around the world. A region in Southern Australia is experiencing a nine-month toxic algae bloom that ...

When scores of dead and dying sea animals began washing up on L.A.-area beaches just weeks after January’s devastating fires, the timing seemed suspicious. Harmful algae blooms had sickened marine ...