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Michigan State partners with ExxonMobil to advance algae biofuels

2015-10-01 20:55:31| Green Car Congress

Toxic Algae Outbreak Overwhelms a Polluted Ohio River

2015-10-01 15:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The Ohio River, transformed by mining and industrial waste and sewage overflows into the nations most polluted major waterway, has a new and unexpected tormentor this fall: carpets of poisonous algae. Pads of toxic blue-green algae have speckled nearly two-thirds of the 981-mile river in the last five weeks, experts say, in an outbreak that has curbed boating, put water utilities on alert and driven the rivers few hardy swimmers back to shore. The only other recorded toxic algae bloom, in 2008,...

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Scientists: Algae not just Toledo problem

2015-09-27 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Toledo Blade: Climate change and poor land use have caused explosive growth of toxic algae around the world in recent years, putting more water-treatment plant operators on high alert and increasing anxiety of consumers. Over the past two decades, the scourge has become so widespread, from the Arctic Circle to South America, that scientists were almost unfazed when they learned that trace amounts of the harmful algal toxin microcystin, the same one behind 2014's Toledo water crisis, showed up for the first...

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Rare algae launches call for control

2015-09-22 22:26:03| Waste Management - Topix.net

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY ************************* SAULT STE. MARIE, MI Anglers on the St. Mary's have been pulling up large mats of an invader algae called Didymosphenia geminate, better know as didymo.

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