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EcoWatch: Nutrient enrichment and climate change are posing yet another concern of growing importance--an apparent increase in the toxicity of some algal blooms in freshwater lakes and estuaries around the world, which threatens aquatic organisms, ecosystem health and human drinking water safety.
As this nutrient enrichment, or “eutrophication” increases, so will the proportion of toxin-producing strains of cyanobacteria in harmful algal blooms, scientists said.
Toxic microcystin bacteria float, along......
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Toxic Algal Blooms Connected to Climate Change and Industrial Agriculture
Posted by EcoWatch: Oregon State University on October 25th, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation