Algal blooms are ugly, stinky, and rapidly diminish any enthusiasm ... One of the major causes in the Baltic Sea is a process named eutrophication, likely originating from the Greek term eutrophos, or ...

Decades of pollution and climate change have caused fish to disappear from the Baltic Sea at an alarming rate, with the European Union on Thursday vowing to make the sea an "urgent priority".

Scientists have identified hundreds of new giant viruses, or 'giruses,' in oceans worldwide, using advanced computer software ...

The Baltic Sea is home to some of the world's largest dead marine zones, ... It causes vast algae blooms in summer, a process known as eutrophication that removes oxygen from the water, ...

Such a discovery changes the way scientists think about the food chain in ocean ecosystems. Giant viruses can infect tiny ...

Generally, giant viruses attack tiny organisms such as algae and amoebas in the world's waterways ... Most of the giant ...

A vitamin deficiency linked to an enzyme found in anchovies that breaks down Vitamin B1, or thiamine, is threatening the ...

Water quality scientists predict the harmful algae bloom on western Lake Erie this year will be relatively mild and less ...

Researchers at the Nansen Center in Bergen have now taken a closer look at how future changes in sea temperature and salinity may affect the frequency of blooms of the two most harmful algae ...