The Florida Department of Health in Osceola County (DOH-Osceola) cautions the public about the presence of harmful blue-green ...

“The inside of the structure that causes the coloration contains a substance that is highly reactive and may act as a feeding repellent to algae-eating fish. Such a repellant is more effective when ...

The Cape Coral community is eager to get rid of the toxic blue-green algae plaguing canals and they are using something similar to what you use to clean aquariums. Researchers are taking samples in ...

STUART, Fla. — Two scientists looking at toxic algae's long-term effects on people say ditch the fish caught in waters contaminated with cyanobacteria. Rain, heat and pollutants have caused the ...

Don’t drink untreated surface water. Avoid swimming in algal blooms. Rinse fish with clean water prior to cooking thoroughly and eat only the fillet portion, not the organs where toxins can accumulate ...

Port St. Lucie has begun treatments to neutralize a blue-green algae bloom that killed thousands of fish and to improve water quality at the Sawgrass Lakes. The city has reported that 5,860 fish had ...

Some red algae exhibit structural color that gives their growth tips a blue hue and the rest of their bodies including their fruiting structures a white hue. Moreover, since the color-producing ...

The Florida Department of Health in Osceola County Friday issued a health alert for the presence of harmful blue-green algae toxins in the Lake Marian Pavilion area in southern Osceola County.