Levels of the toxin microcystin has been detected in Lake Erie weeks earlier than usual, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

NOAA has detected levels of the harmful toxin, microcystin, in Lake Erie weeks earlier than it is usually detected in routine ...

PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio — Editor's note: The above video is from earlier coverage of Lake Erie harmful ... a known liver toxin which can affect humans and wildlife. NOAA officials said the bloom ...

Paul Den Uyl, a scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research who led the recent study, extracted and ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Approximately 360 square miles of Lake Erie were covered by algal bloom ... National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The cyanobacteria bloom, also known as a ...

“About 11 million people get their drinking water from Lake Erie. So if this species is out there and it is producing toxins, that water will be drawn into a water treatment plant before it is sent ...

You might want to look twice before plunging into Lake Erie over this long Fourth of July weekend. On June 27, a week before July 4, the NOAA and research ... produce potent toxins that can ...