Storm sewers in city and suburban streets flow directly into lakes and rivers. Leaves, grass clippings and other organic debris we all often see along curbs and clogging storm drains contain ...

To politicians who doubt the broad appeal of environmental protection — at least the protection of local, poster-worthy natural landmarks — I give you the Rotary Club. I'm talking about a project ...

WEEKI WACHEE — Volunteers again are ridding Weeki Wachee Spring of "witches" — witch's hair, actually. That's the name old-timers bestowed on the dark strands of bottom-growing Lyngbya algae, an ...

Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin is closed because of potentially fatal levels of blue-green algae. The National Capital Authority says there has been a significant spike in algae levels over the past ...

No, it’s not a sea monster with an appetite for algae that’s been eating up muck floating on Carolina Beach Lake. The half-barge, half-johnboat with a giant rake mounted on it is the invention of ...

MADISON, Wis.– There’s a popular idea that it takes 21 days to form a habit; that’s even harder when that habit is something you only do a handful of times a year. “It’s weird to say, ‘Rake the curb ...