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Newsweek contacted the office of DeSantis out of hours via email for comment. Harmful algal blooms can cause respiratory illness and eye irritation in humans, and can kill marine life, as well as ...

In freshwater environments such as lakes, ponds and streams, a cyanobacterium known as Microcystis aeruginosa is responsible for most toxic harmful algal bloom episodes. While most efforts on ...

Bright green and red algal blooms on the surface of waterways appear to burst with life. But these microbial coatings are creating dead zones in the water below by depleting oxygen and blocking ...

"We don't know a lot about the viruses, but I think they could be useful as a way of alleviating ice melting caused by algal blooms," Perini explains. "Which hosts the giant viruses infect ...