FOR THIS SEASON. AN EYE CATCHING SIGHT AT A CALIFORNIA LAKE. CLEAR LAKE TURNED GREEN CLEAR LAKE IS A NATURAL FRESHWATER LAKE NORTH OF NAPA COUNTY. IT NORMALLY LOOKS LIKE THIS, BUT JUST A FEW WEEKS ...

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.

Lake Okeechobee, in South Florida, has a problem that grows every summer. Toxic algae fed by agricultural fertilizers spread across the wide, shallow lake ... of the electric-green algae, while ...

Writing in the journal Water, the researchers describe a system of floating geotextile filters that efficiently remove suspended solids, algae and the nutrients from a shallow lake. While the ...

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 ...