Winter brought a colder and icier season to the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, which saw a near-complete ice cover in ...

Agricultural runoff, less wintertime ice cover and strong storms that deposit nutrients into the lake are other possible ...

Changing the name of Lake Erie is ludicrous, especially when there are serious issues concerning the lake − like fertilizer runoff, algae blooms, and invasive species to name a few. If he wants ...

"There are both freshwater and brackish blooms to be found ... it's north of 400 square miles of algal potential on the lake, and you can see that green from the satellite imagery level." ...

Some, like the blooms of cyanobacteria in Lake Erie and Green Bay, are toxic, posing a threat to drinking water supplies. Others, like the blooms of bottom-dwelling algae along Lake Michigan’s ...

An analysis of water samples taken from Lake Erie, the district’s only water source, showed that levels of a toxin released by algal blooms had spiked. In five years of voluntarily testing for the ...