algae

What’s the Deal With Toxic Algae?

Algae Blooms on the Farmington River, Connecticut | Farmington River Watershed Association It’s summer, prime season to play in rivers…

4 months ago

Monitoring Aquatic Weed Control Methods to Preserve, Restore, and Enhance the Tahoe Keys Lagoons

While Lake Tahoe’s crystalline azure has lasted for eons, the changes wrought by past land uses in the basin have…

1 year ago

The wrong kind of blooms: Climate change, invasive clams are fueling algae growth on Lake Tahoe

Photo: UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center is studying the link between the concentration of nutrients created by invasive Asian…

1 year ago

‘It gets worse every day’: why are sea lions and dolphins dying along California’s coast?

In addition to an estimated more than 1,000 sick and dying sea lions, 110 dolphins have also been killed. Photograph: Channel…

1 year ago

Digitizing Data: Tracking Harmful Algal Blooms in the San Francisco Estuary

Photo credit: California Department of Water Resources Earlier this month, I was working my way through my morning emails and…

1 year ago