Report Blames Keys Algae Bloom on Roads

Lain Goodwin eased his boat into Florida Bay, hoping for the water to clear. He looked for the holes in the bay floor where he would always catch some snook, but there was nothing to see. The only clear blue was the sky.

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"more than 8,000 birds killed since just after Labor Day, scientists estimate. The death toll — which might eventually pass 10,000 — is from a mysterious algae bloom still off the coast that has scientists and researchers worried and mystified."

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Scientists have gotten the results back from their analysis of the floating goo slicks that have puzzled, frightened, amused and generally caught the attention of many around the world this week.

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A new study funded by NOAA and the National Science Foundation reveals that a part of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which separates Washington state from Canada's British Columbia, is a potential "hot spot" for toxic harmful algal blooms affecting the Washington and British C …

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Discharge from sewage-treatment plants and rivers — the end repositories of pollutants rinsing off the land, including stormwater — are major sources of nitrogen pollution, a new state study has found. Excess nitrogen can be a problem because it feeds algae blooms.

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The government warned consumers Monday not to eat the soft, green substance found in the body cavity of lobsters, saying it may be contaminated with a toxin.

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With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic comp …

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