The proliferations have become increasingly common in recent years and can have health and economic impacts in affected areas ...

Researchers say chlorine in combination with ultraviolet light works to degrade deadly toxins created by harmful algae blooms in drinking water. Treatment plants use a combination of tools to keep ...

Treatment plants use a combination of tools to keep toxins and contaminants out of drinking water. Researchers with the ...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has developed satellite ocean colour maps to warn of red tides ...

For South Florida’s commercial fishermen, the effects of red tides on their operations have become a grim annual reality. The tides, named for when overproduction of the harmful algae Karenia brevis ...

Blue-green (cyanobacterial) algal blooms may contain toxins or other noxious chemicals that can pose harmful health risks. People or animals may become sick if exposed to these blooms.

As harmful algal blooms (HABs) continue to spread across the globe, urgent research is needed to address this growing threat. Studies in Italy, China, and the Atlantic basin have shown that many ...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has developed an online tool that enables abalone farmers along ...

Newsweek contacted the office of DeSantis out of hours via email for comment. Harmful algal blooms can cause respiratory illness and eye irritation in humans, and can kill marine life, as well as ...

Harmful algal blooms, sometimes called HABs, occur when algae grow out of control. Algae are photosynthetic organisms that mostly live in water and rely on the sunlight for energy.