Recently the Duval County Health Department issued a health alert for toxic blue-green algae in the St. Johns River. The cause of the bloom has been attributed to excess nutrients in the river, ...

Quick-growing blooms of bacteria and algae have long been a hazard in lakes and rivers, because of the toxins they produce. Fueled in part by agricultural runoff, these blooms are also threatening ...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The Town of Palm Beach is reminding residents its seasonal fertilizer ban will go into effect on June 1. According to the town's ordinance, fertilizers containing nitrogen ...

Research published in Nature Water found that widespread application of the common farm fertilizer, urea, severely degrades ...

LUSH LAWNS, BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES. WE JOKE ABOUT HAVING A GREEN THUMB, BUT IT’S ABOUT KNOWING WHAT TO PLANT AND HOW TO CARE FOR IT THIS TIME OF YEAR. CERTAIN FERTILIZERS CAN HURT WATERWAYS AND THE ...

While fertilizers provide essential nutrients, like nitrogen, to our food crops, they can also leach into water bodies and feed harmful algal blooms. Researchers at the University of Florida are ...

Stormwater runoff carries nutrients from fertilizers into local water bodies, which then feed toxic algae blooms that kill marine life and cause respiratory issues for people. The advocacy ...

OREGON, Ohio — On a warm late-summer evening, a small speedboat motored across a pea-green stretch of Lake Erie past a beach where a child sat splashing and a pair of newlyweds waded for a portrait ...

After neurotoxins forced two separate “do not drink” orders last year, one Coles County city said it’s taking measures to ...