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  2. Harmful algal bloom - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Cyanotoxin - Wikipedia

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    In freshwater ecosystems, algal blooms are most commonly caused by high levels of nutrients (eutrophication). The blooms can look like foam, scum or mats or like paint floating on the surface of the water, but they are not always visible. Nor are the blooms always green; they can be blue, and some cyanobacteria species are coloured brownish-red.

  4. Algal bloom - Wikipedia

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    A harmful algal bloom (HAB) is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms via production of natural toxins, mechanical damage to other organisms, or by other means. The diversity of these HABs make them even harder to manage, and present many issues, especially to threatened coastal areas. [ 33 ]

  5. How harmful algal blooms, or colonies of microscopic algae ...

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    Harmful Algal blooms are colonies of microscopic algae that grow out of control. They can be damaging to people, wildlife and the environment. How harmful algal blooms, or colonies of microscopic ...

  6. Harmful algal bloom reported in Devils Lake: What you ... - AOL

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    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.

  7. Sewage, algae blooms, flesh-eating bacteria: Is this water ...

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    Discolored or smelly water could mean there is a harmful algal bloom in the water. If you see any pipes draining into or around the water, you should avoid swimming due to the heightened risk ...

  8. Microcystis aeruginosa - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. 8 Westchester, Putnam beaches are closed due to harmful algae ...

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    Harmful blooms are the rapid growth of algae or cyanobacteria in water, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Going in or near water with a harmful algal bloom can make you ...