Each summer, more and more lake beaches are forced to close due to toxic algae blooms. While climate change is often blamed, ...

A study of Kenya’s Winam Gulf is shedding light on how harmful algal blooms may evolve in a warming climate. Scientists ...

Swimming in some lakes with still water can lead to infection with Legionella, bacteria that can cause pneumonia, and people ...

Much of the conversation focused on research regarding water quality and contamination. Reducing phosphorus in the basin is a primary concern, panelists said, as is chloride – a compound in various ...

"Beautiful, hard ice out here on Lake Champlain, and we have about 1,200 pond hockey players that pour into town for this.”There will be six subdivisions that will play at the championship round ...

Seven Days Senior Multimedia Producer Eva Sollberger met up with Perkins for a lesson in Nordic skating on Lake Champlain in this “Stuck in Vermont.” Watch the video to see.

He said it’s imperative the city capitalizes on its assets like Lake Champlain. “We’re gonna have two colleges at the end of this year,” he said. “There’s so many great things ...

The leeches are not only organisms that suck blood from the animal’s body. There are various other bloodsuckers as well, like lampreys. Lake Champlain, known for being home to the oldest fossil reefs ...

But what about a virus that doesn’t make people sick — just the bacteria that infects people, effectively destroying it? That’s what bacteriophages — or, simply, phages — are ...

These changes can have major negative consequences. Increased algal production means that as the organisms die and settle to the lake bottom, they are decomposed, which uses up the oxygen in ...

"On Thursday, the Skating Club of Lake Placid posted a comment on the tragic crash, which reads:"On behalf of the Skating Club of Lake Placid, our thoughts and prayers are with our fellow skating ...

Have you ever heard of pancake ice? No, it's not a new breakfast delicacy. It's what's forming on Lake Champlain in Vermont right now. "At Leddy Beach, (in Burlington, VT) pancake ice can be seen ...