NASA Glenn Aircraft and Exhibits at the Cleveland National Air Show

NASA’s Glenn Research Center will share in the action at the Cleveland National Air Show, Aug. 30- Sept.1 at Burke Lakefront Airport in downtown Cleveland.

Cost to make Toledo water safe increases

by WKSU’s AMANDA RABINOWITZ

Making sure drinking water is safe in Toledo will cost nearly $2 million more than the city expected.

Lake Erie Toxic Algae: Pelee Island Closes Beaches, Warns Against Tap Water Amid Blue-Green Algae Flare-Up

Lake Erie Island Warns Of Toxic Algae Flare-Up

By Maria Gallucci@mariagalluccim.gallucci@ibtimes.com

An Aug. 25 satellite image of Lake Erie shows blue-green algae formations in the western corner. Pelee Island, the lake’s largest island between Canada and the United States, is seen surrounded by algae.

Green goo growing in Lake Erie is not what you think it is

By REBECCA WILLIAMS

Lately, that green slime in the lake has been all over the news after it shut down Toledo’s water supply.

Lake Erie’s problems were solved in the ’70s

By Laura Arenschield | The Columbus Dispatch

 

GIBRALTAR ISLAND, Ohio — For years, Sandy Bihn and her husband, Frank, spent their summers swimming in Maumee Bay, diving into clean water and racing their personal watercrafts over the waves.

Curbing phosphorus would quickly slash algae in Lake Erie

By Laura Arenschield

The Columbus Dispatch

GIBRALTAR ISLAND, Ohio — Toledo residents probably won’t soon forget how it felt to know that their tap water could poison them.

Federal officials announce more Lake Erie funding

TOLEDO, OH — Federal officials announced new funding to combat nutrient runoff, algal blooms and other issues plaguing Lake Erie, during an Aug. 19 event in Toledo.

Algae forecast detailed at Stone Lab gathering

Scientists: 2014 season won’t be as bad as 2011

BY TOM HENRY 
BLADE STAFF WRITER

GIBRALTAR ISLAND, Ohio — Scientists expect the remainder of Lake Erie’s algae season to be bad, though not nearly as bad as the worst season on record, 2011.

Lake Erie toxic algae bloom: Time to scale up solutions we know work

By Karen Chapman

The recent drinking water crisis in Toledo was a sober reminder that we need better solutions to address runoff from farms and urban areas.

Seeing Purpose and Profit in Algae

By MATTHEW L. WALD

Entrepreneurs have been trying for years to get something valuable out of algae.

It has not been easy, and not just because algae are an unsightly nuisance (and sometimes dangerous, as is the Lake Erie bloom that has endangered drinking water this month).