California sea lion fetuses exposed to toxic algae on the rise in their habitats may develop seizures and abnormal behavior later in life, a study of lab rodents has found.
Some residents in B.C.'s Central Interior are being told to avoid drinking or bathing in their tap water following an outbreak of potentially toxic algae blooms.
Research from the University of Alberta has confirmed that algae blooms, which can poison lakes and kill fish, can be controlled by limiting phosphorus.
... of the Juan de Fuca Strait, frequently contained significant populations of the microscopic toxic alga, Pseudo-nitzschia.
Over the course of the five-year study, the researchers took thousands of ...
... that of blood-sucking insects", says Per Jonsson of the Department of Marine Ecology.
The blooming of toxic algae in the oceans and lakes is a familiar health risk and causes problems every summer, ...
... killer behind the world's great species annihilations. Today, just about anywhere there is water, there can be toxic algae. The microscopic plants usually exist in small concentrations, but a sudden ...
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Scientists say they think toxins from a blue-green algae plaguing lakes and rivers around the West are harming an endangered fish in the Klamath Basin, adding another ...
... global phenomenon. Marine "dead zones" with low oxygen and/or toxic algae, caused primarily by the run-off of fertilizers from the land, as well as a greater reliance on fossil fuel, are ...
... , in what is arguably an unfavorable microenvironment, may have widespread consequences, as harmful blooms of toxic algae often take the form of thin layers."
Using video-microscopy, Durham and ...
... marine microscopic plankton, the so-called "toxic algae". Mussels can filter a high amount ... probes prove the existence of the toxin-producing algae in seawater samples and they offer an effective future ...
... , river runoff, and various wind and current patterns to predict the intensity and location of blooms of the toxic algae in the Gulf of Maine.
With data from last year's cyst counts, the WHOI and ...
Bangladeshi renewables project proves successful, India resolving spacecraft malfunction, scientists rid water of toxic algae, and more.
SEATTLE, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- More than 100 dead and dying sea ducks found on two Washington state beaches likely were sickened by a toxic algae bloom, wildlife officials said.
The recovery has resulted partly from dedicated efforts by scientists to rebuild the population which was decimated by surges in toxic algae known as brown tide.
