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State-run parks and beaches provide a bevy of tools for uncovering real-time reports on beach closures and water testing results, including a user-friendly map, via the state parks' website, at ...
Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) bloom on Lake Erie (United States) in 2009. These kinds of algae can cause harmful algal bloom. A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, sometimes called a red tide in marine environments, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, water deoxygenation, mechanical damage to ...
Toxic algae blooms in Pierce County lakes are risky for pets and animals, but human beings should also avoid and report them. American Lake, others under-monitored for harmful algae, here’s how ...
Blue-green algae, known as cyanobacteria or harmful algal blooms (HABs), has been confirmed at Devils Lake in Manitou Beach, a news release from the Lenawee County Health Department said.
Wood affected by woodworm. Signs of woodworm usually consist of holes in the wooden item, with live infestations showing powder (faeces), known as frass, around the holes.. The size of the holes varies, but they are typically 1 to 1.5 millimetres (5 ⁄ 128 to 1 ⁄ 16 in) in diameter for the most common household species, although they can be much larger in the case of the house longhorn beet
The impact of harmful algae blooms on the environment have a substantial effect on marine life. For example, in August 2024 the growth of the toxic algae, Pseudo-nitzschia , along California coasts were making sea lions sick and aggressive to beach goers. [ 44 ]
Four of the City of Lake Geneva's beaches remain closed due to blue-green algae, a bloom that can produce toxins that can make humans and animals sick, or even cause them to die in some cases.
The presence of blue-green algae blooms in the region’s lakes have prompted additional land acquisition strategies, according to Andy Zepp, executive director of the Finger Lakes Land Trust.