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Toxic Algae Blooms Threaten People and Waterways in More Than 20 States

Toxic Algae Blooms Threaten People and Waterways in More Than 20 States

More than 20 states have seen occurrences of toxic algae blooms this summer, which have had far-reaching environmental and human health impacts across the country. The algae blooms can also be found around the world, in all climates from Greenland to Oman. Utah swimmers have been sickened by the toxins, while beaches in Florida have […]

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    Toxic Algae Blooms Threaten People and Waterways in More Than 20 States

    Toxic Algae Blooms Threaten People and Waterways in More Than 20 States

    More than 20 states have seen occurrences of toxic algae blooms this summer, which have had far-reaching environmental and human health impacts across the country. The algae blooms can also be found around the world, in all climates from Greenland to Oman. Utah swimmers have been sickened by the toxins, while beaches in Florida have […]

    Legal Levels of Roundup Pose Risks for Stream Algae

    Legal Levels of Roundup Pose Risks for Stream Algae

    Even though glyphosate is used to control weeds in agricultural fields, the world’s most commonly used weedkiller has also been detected in streams, rivers and other aquatic systems worldwide due to runoff. As we learn more and more about the potential environmental risks of glyphosate runoff, in Brazil—where almost 188,000 tons of glyphosate was sold […]

    Glyphosate Sprayed on GMO Crops Linked to Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae Bloom

    Glyphosate Sprayed on GMO Crops Linked to Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae Bloom

    Glyphosate, the controversial main ingredient in Monsanto‘s Roundup and other herbicides, is being connected to Lake Erie’s troubling algae blooms, which has fouled drinking water and suffocated and killed marine life in recent years. Phosphorus—attributed to farm runoff carried by the Maumee River—has long been identified as a leading culprit feeding the excessive blooms in […]