Sri Lanka experienced heavy rainfall throughout October ... Torrential rain often carries excess nutrients, potentially triggering algal blooms, Dr. Athukoorala told the Sunday Times.

The phenomenon, already recorded elsewhere, happened for the first time in the port city where the Mahaweli River flows. The ...

That's a testament to there only being algae bloom advisories along Lake Mohave rather than full closures of certain sites. "It's like saying there's a bear in the woods," Rackliffe said on the ...

“They are single-celled aquatic organisms called cyanobacteria that are closely related to bacteria and can photosynthesize like algae.” The blooms occur most often in late summer and early ...

Scientists: algae proliferation favoured by ‘sunlight ... located on the north-eastern coast of Sri Lanka. It was caused by the presence of thousands of rotting fish that washed ashore and ...