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The sign informed the couple that harmful algal blooms had been found in the Lake Erie waters off the popular beach. Recent testing showed the toxin levels from those blooms exceeded the threshold ...
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, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, water deoxygenation, mechanical damage to other organisms, or by other means.
A team of scientists at the University of Michigan are searching for pharmaceutical drugs in Lake Erie's harmful algae bloom. Here's what to know.
Western Lake Erie's 2021 algal bloom wasn't the most serious, but it ended up being worse than expected and — thanks to an unusually warm October — was so resilient it threatened to last into ...
A very large algae bloom in Lake Erie, North America, which can be seen from space.. An algal bloom or algae bloom is a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in fresh water or marine water systems.
In August 2014, the City of Toledo, Ohio detected unsafe levels of microcystin in its water supply due to harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, the shallowest of the Great Lakes. The city issued an advisory to approximately 500,000 people that the water was not safe for drinking or cooking.
Scientists have bumped up their Lake Erie Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) severity projections, with green algae visible in parts of the lake.
Microcystis aeruginosa is a species of freshwater cyanobacteria that can form harmful algal blooms of economic and ecological importance. They are the most common toxic cyanobacterial bloom in eutrophic fresh water. Cyanobacteria produce neurotoxins and peptide hepatotoxins, such as microcystin and cyanopeptolin. [1]