A large-scale red tide bloom, roughly 100 square miles in size, is floating in the Gulf of Mexico about 25 miles off the ...

A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with ...

A health alert has been issued for red tide near Bowman’s Beach on Sanibel. Residents and visitors are advised to exercise ...

Red tide, caused by the organism Karenia brevis, has been detected in 34 samples collected from Florida’s Gulf Coast over the ...

Toxic red algae blooms in Florida have spread to metropolitan counties ... bout of it in Florida could be related to Hurricane Irma's churning of water in the Gulf of Mexico, which caused upwelling of ...

Satellite data has revealed a potential red tide bloom developing along ... "Hurricanes do bring up deeper water in the Gulf ...

It’ll push into the Gulf of Mexico and parts of the United States ... of this biologically-accessible nitrogen, a huge bloom of toxic red algae had formed within the study area, an 8,100 ...

particularly in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This phenomenon is primarily driven by nutrient loading from agricultural runoff, which leads to algal blooms and subsequent oxygen depletion in bottom ...

Clumps of the brownish seaweed known as sargassum have long washed up on Caribbean coastlines, but researchers say the algae blooms have exploded ... in the east, and Mexico's Caribbean resorts ...

The Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies said it supports a wide variety of small invertebrates. It’s separate from the microscopic — and toxic — "red tide” algae blooms ...

Red tide is caused by high concentrations of a toxin-producing microscopic algae, called K. brevis, that is found in the Gulf of Mexico. Tests conducted Jan. 2 at the popular Collier County ...

Karenia brevis is a naturally occurring, single-celled organism belonging to a group of algae ... blooms to be called "red tides." K. brevis is found almost exclusively in the Gulf of Mexico ...