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Harmful algal blooms, or HABs, can consist of many cyanobacterial species, each capable of generating different toxins.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2025

"Since dolphins are considered environmental sentinels for toxic exposures in marine environments," Dr. David Davis at the Miller School of Medicine explains, "there are concerns about human health issues associated with cyanobacterial blooms."

From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2025

The result: increased phytoplankton growth, oxygen deficiency, toxic cyanobacterial blooms and fish kills.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

Bowker notes that as the climate gets hotter along the Great Wall, the thicker, moss-dominated crusts could give way to thinner, cyanobacterial crusts, which require less water.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

Increased nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus promote cyanobacterial growth and additional aspects like stagnant water, increased intensity and duration of sunlight, sustained high temperatures and low flows create "ideal conditions" for the blooms.

From Fox News • Aug. 25, 2021