Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

Scientists have found new evidence that desertification, potentially linked to global warming, leads to large amounts of nutrient-rich dust landing in the sea, causing ocean algae to grow rapidly ...

A toxic algae bloom spreading off the Pacific coast could be the largest one scientists have ever seen. "It's definitely the largest bloom of this particular algae seen on the West Coast, possibly ...

Researchers have measured toxins in scat samples from 205 bowhead whales from the Beaufort Sea, collected over 19 years, and ...

A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...

A team of chemists, microbiologists and ecologists has designed a molecular probe (a molecule designed to detect proteins or ...

Foam from ocean algae bloom killing thousands of birds. Updated: Oct. 24, ... This algal bloom, unlike the toxins produced by blue-green algae, poses no threat to humans or pets.

Some harmful algal blooms thrive in warm water – making them more of a concern as ocean temperatures climb. But in other cases, like the ongoing bloom in California, it is driven less by water ...

Algae blooms are short-lived population explosions of tiny sea plants. They usually happen when a waterway is flooded with some kind of critical, scarce nutrient. Algae gobble up all of that food ...

This is the fourth consecutive year a lethal algae bloom has occurred along the Southern California coast, fueled by an upwelling of nutrient-rich waters from the deep ocean. Research teams are ...

In the open ocean, harmful algal blooms spurred by climate-change-driven sea surface temperatures have helped to block light. The most prominent changes were observed around the poles and the top ...