SALEM, Oregon — The words blasted to cellphones around Oregon’s capital city were ominous: “Civil emergency. prepare for action.” Within...
Plan to protect Lake Erie from algae blooms isn’t working, study shows
Farm runoff provides fertilizer that turbo-charges algae growth in the western Lake Erie basin. Wochit (Photo: Brenda Culler, Ohio Department...
Algae from wastewater solves two problems: biofuel and cleanup
In one of the first studies to examine the potential for using municipal wastewater as a feedstock for algae-based biofuels,...
The simple river-cleaning tactics that big farms ignore
Ione Cleverley wasn’t eager to break up with her tenant, who had been farming 88 acres of her central Iowa...
Attack of the Killer Algae
Photo: Algal bloom on Lake Erie A roving pack of journalists shake off the rain in a squat, one-story federal...