Huge green blooms now ... past century has made the lake like a supersize petri dish. The vapors come from rotting mats of toxic algae that thrive in Okeechobee’s shallow tea-warm water.

Most phytoplankton, composed of diatoms, algae, Cyanobacteria and other organisms which perform photosynthesis, are beneficial and essential to the ecology of our lakes and the food web fueling our ...

According to the study, a century of human activity has sent nutrients into the lake, leading to the proliferation of algae that has turned the water green ... in Kenya’s shallow Winam/Nyanza ...