"One of the largest, longest, and most lethal." Officials share update after lethal threat terrorizes West Coast beaches: ...

When scores of dead and dying sea animals began washing up on L.A.-area beaches just weeks after January’s devastating fires, the timing seemed suspicious. Harmful algae blooms had sickened marine ...

Blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, are naturally occurring in ecosystems. Under certain conditions like warmer temperatures ...

Thurston County has issued a health advisory for Offut Lake, shown here. Thurston County is warning the public to avoid Offut Lake and Lake Lawrence due to toxic algae blooms. Staff from the ...

Marine mammal care centers worry NOAA furloughs and cuts over a longer period could reduce oversight for ocean creatures.

In more recent years, 10 shore stations have been set up along the California coast from Scripps Pier north ... said retired Scripps archivist Deborah Day. In 2008, a Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring ...

Neurotoxin levels were highest in the dolphins stranded during warmer months, when harmful algal blooms are more severe.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has delayed the opening of commercial crabbing season statewide to protect ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — It has been 11 years since Toledo’s water crisis changed the way many look at algal blooms in Lake Erie. Now, more than a decade later, a five-year, $6.5 million study at the University ...

Noelle Held, a USC microbiologist and oceanographer, collects a water sample at Surfrider Beach on June 1. (Hon Wing Chiu / For The Times) When scores of dead and dying sea animals began washing up on ...