Recently the Duval County Health Department issued a health alert for toxic blue-green algae in the St. Johns River. The cause of the bloom has been attributed to excess nutrients in the river, ...

Research published in Nature Water found that widespread application of the common farm fertilizer, urea, severely degrades ...

Quick-growing blooms of bacteria and algae have long been a hazard in lakes and rivers, because of the toxins they produce. Fueled in part by agricultural runoff, these blooms are also threatening ...

LUSH LAWNS, BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES. WE JOKE ABOUT HAVING A GREEN THUMB, BUT IT’S ABOUT KNOWING WHAT TO PLANT AND HOW TO CARE FOR IT THIS TIME OF YEAR. CERTAIN FERTILIZERS CAN HURT WATERWAYS AND THE ...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The Town of Palm Beach is reminding residents its seasonal fertilizer ban will go into effect on June 1. According to the town's ordinance, fertilizers containing nitrogen ...

While fertilizers provide essential nutrients, like nitrogen, to our food crops, they can also leach into water bodies and feed harmful algal blooms. Researchers at the University of Florida are ...

OREGON, Ohio — On a warm late-summer evening, a small speedboat motored across a pea-green stretch of Lake Erie past a beach where a child sat splashing and a pair of newlyweds waded for a portrait ...

After neurotoxins forced two separate “do not drink” orders last year, one Coles County city said it’s taking measures to ...

As climate change intensifies harmful algal blooms worldwide, an international team led by Hiroshima University has developed ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OREGON, Ohio (AP) — On a warm late-summer ...