Eutrophication makes toxic cyanobacteria more toxic

Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Dec 09, 2010 – Continued eutrophication of the Baltic Sea, combined with an ever thinner ozone layer, is favouring the toxic cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena, reveals research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. “There are several species of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, that can form surface blooms in the Baltic Sea,” explains Malin […]

Phosphorus pollution from farms causing Chesapeake Bay dead zones

CONTACT: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-698212-07-2010 WASHINGTON – For more than thirty years, contamination from high-intensity farming has been adding to the pollution that fouls Chesapeake Bay, one of America’s most storied waterways. A new report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) shows that weakly regulated agricultural practices in the six states of the Chesapeake […]

Chesapeake Bay progress uneven, study shows

Data suggest sewage upgrades working, farm runoff controls aren’t By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun September 15, 2010 A new study shows some Chesapeake Bay rivers have gotten cleaner over the past three decades, while others are getting worse. The analysis, released Wednesday by the U.S. Geological Survey, suggests costly upgrades of sewage plants […]

Invasive mollusk disrupting base of Lake Michigan ecosystem — ‘We have a system that’s crashing’

  By Marcia GoodrichSeptember 7, 2010 12:23 PM September 2, 2010 — Something has been eating Charlie Kerfoot’s doughnut, and all fingers point to a European mollusk about the size of a fat lima bean. No one knew about the doughnut in southern Lake Michigan, much less the mollusk, until Michigan Technological University biologist W. […]

How algae ‘enslavement’ threatens freshwater bodies

  By Staff WritersAug 19, 2010 Jerusalem, Israel (SPX) Aug 19, 2010 – How toxic, blue-green algae out-compete other organisms through a form of selfish “enslavement” – and by so doing proliferate dangerously in freshwater bodies – has been described by a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In general, the increasing occurrence of […]

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