cyanobacteria

The Michigan Agri-Business Association, a trade group representing agricultural interests, is launching a campaign to educate farmers about best practices…

Last night I drove almost a hundred miles into Ohio to preside over a discussion with huge implications for Michigan. The topic was the future of Lake…

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a health advisory for microcystin. That’s the toxin that shut down Toledo’s drinking water supply in…

Ohio State University researchers say the public is willing to pay part of the price to address Lake Erie’s cyanobacteria problem. “Unfortunately,…

Governor Rick Snyder and state environmental officials have declared western Lake Erie is an “impaired” waterway that needs to be cleaned up. The problem…

Scientists launched a kind of underwater robotic tool in Lake Erie this week to test the water for toxins.Timothy Davis is a researcher with NOAA's Great…

State officials in Ohio want to list parts of the Lake Erie shoreline and drinking water intakes in the lake as impaired. They want to do this because of…

The drought this summer may not have been good for your lawn.But it was good for reducing the blooms of green slime known as cyanobacteria in Lake…

Toxic blooms of cyanobacteria have been forming on Lake Erie for several years now.A kind of cyanobacteria called Microcystis produces a toxin that can…

It's been two years since drinking water in Toledo was contaminated by cyanobacteriain Lake Erie. Four hundred thousand Toledo-area residents couldn't…