Evidence of toxins in endangered fish add hurdle to restoring fish in Klamath water fights Scientists say they believe toxins from a blue-green ...
PHYCAL: POWER FROM POND SCUM Kevin Berner, the 52-year-old CEO and founder of Phycal, is betting that green lagoons of algae are the ...
Many people associate anthrax with the 2001 outbreak of bioterrorism in the United States, though this attack was merely one of hundreds of anthrax episodes that have plagued the globe since as far back as classical Greek and Roman times. Anthrax is ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States have also had bacterial infections, health officials reported on Wednesday. A study of 77 patients who died of the new pandemic H1N1 virus showed 29 percent ...
Panel: Overzealous lab rules may stifle research efforts to protect against biological threats A panel of university and private-sector scientists urged Congress on Thursday not to overregulate laboratories that handle the world's deadliest pathogens, saying it could have a chilling effect on ...
This photo provided by John Kuglin shows some green algae on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, on Lake Pokegama near Chetek, Wis. Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer ...
Hillion is a picture-postcard Breton town with grey stone houses, a pretty granite church and long sandy beaches. But the seaside idyll has been ruined by mounds of rotting seaweed that have settled across swathes of France's northwestern coast, giving off a ...
Drought is fueling more smelly and dog-killing blue-green algae in parts of Upper Midwest Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that's killed dozens ...
French prosecutor studying toxic algae complaints after horse's death on beach The prosecutor's office is studying up to 300 complaints linked to noxious green algae after the death of a horse this summer on a beach in Brittany, a judicial official said ...
This undated handout photo provided by the University of Colorado shows visible microbial growth on a showerhead, with the colored growth seen on the white inner surfaces. In the scariest shower news since Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," a new study says showerheads can ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Your shower may not be getting you as clean as you think with a U.S. study finding many showerheads are dirty and may be covering you in a daily dose of bacteria that could make you sick. ...
Those with immune deficiencies at greatest risk In the worst news for daily bathroom showers since Norman Bates, a new University of Colorado at Boulder study warns showers can deliver a face full of potentially disease-causing bacteria. The researchers used high-tech instruments ...
