This season, NOAA and its research partners are predicting a smaller harmful algal bloom for western Lake Erie. The 2016 bloom is expected to measure 5.5 on the severity index, but could range anywhere between 3.0 and 7.0. The forecast … Continued
Pharmaceuticals are widespread in small streams in the Southeastern U.S., according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey. In 2014, the USGS sampled 59 small streams in portions of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia for … Continued
The Arizona Game and Fish Department, in cooperation with the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), will collect a broad spectrum of environmental samples, both biological and physical, from the Arizona portion of Lake Powell as part of continued monitoring … Continued
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has announced that Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, has received a $6.5 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grant to monitor pollutants in Great Lakes fish over the next five years. The grant continues funding … Continued
photo credit: United States Coast Guard An unknown quantity of Bakken crude oil recently spilled into the Kanawha River near following a train derailment and fire. On Febrary 15th, a 109-car CSX train traveling from North Dakota to Yorktown, Va., … Continued