algae

Right now, scientists are on a ship taking samples and measurements of the Great Lakes. They’re trying to determine how the lakes will fare this year and…

Issues & Ale: Seeing Green in Lake ErieMon, August 20, 6:30-8:00 PMBlack Cloister Brewing Company619 Monroe St, Toledo, OH 43604In the summer of 2014,…

Lake Superior is cold, deep and clear. But it’s no longer the clearest of the Great Lakes.Lakes Michigan and Huron have gotten clearer, bumping Lake…

Scientists launched a kind of underwater robotic tool in Lake Erie this week to test the water for toxins.Timothy Davis is a researcher with NOAA's Great…

Yesterday, I talked about how Lake Erie is endangered by pollution from factory farms, which dump hundreds of millions of gallons of animal waste onto the…

You might remember two years ago, when people in Toledo couldn’t drink the water for a couple days because it had been poisoned by toxic cyanobacteria in…

TOLEDO – Ohio's plan to take a big bite out of what's feeding the toxic cyanobacteria in western Lake Erie leans heavily on programs put in place over the…

Half a million Toledo residents lost their drinking water in the summer of 2014 thanks to thick carpets of bacteria-laden algae on Lake Erie.It hammered…

Another severe algal bloom will hit western Lake Erie later this summer, according to environmental scientists from the University of Michigan and the…

Researchers have set up two Porta potties by a bus stop on the University of Michigan's central campus today. They're hoping to gather enough urine to…