algae

For years Lake Erie has been the poster child in the Great Lakes for the problem of toxic algae.More recently, though, the problem has been showing up…

Big, ugly blooms of cyanobacteria (sometimes referred to as blue-green algae) are reappearing in the western basin (and sometimes the central basin) of…

There's a "dead zone" in Green Bay.That may sound like a title of a Stephen King novel, but it is happening in Lake Michigan's Green Bay. A growing dead…

Lake Michigan’s Green Bay is developing dead zones similar to those found in Lake Erie and the Gulf of Mexico. In these zones, the oxygen content in the…

For some, algae can be a lakeside nuisance. But for a team of University of Michigan research, it might be the key ingredient for a new fuel.The National…

A significant amount of blue-green algae is expected in the western basin of Lake Erie this summer. This year’s algal bloom will be about 1/5 as bad as…

Michigan State University researchers are celebrating the marriage of a weed and an algae gene -- and its value as a potential biofuel. The team found…