Every year, from August until the end of September, an oxygen-depleted "dead zone" develops in the deep, frigid water of Lake Erie, threatening the drinking water for millions of Northeast Ohioans ...

Lake Erie's ecological calamities occur under different conditions, a new study finds. The lake's central dead zones are most strongly linked to drought years, when rivers that bring water into ...

Release of nutrients from lake-bottom sediments worsens Lake Erie's annual 'dead zone'. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 02 / 210219091843.htm.

Lake Erie just can't catch a break. The lake has experienced harmful algal blooms and severe oxygen-depleted 'dead zones' for years, but now a team of researchers has shown that the widespread ...

A new study led by the University of Michigan says nutrient pollution into Lake Erie needs to be cut nearly in half to reduce the size of the annual Lake Erie "dead zone" to an acceptable level.

Lake Erie is dying. Again. Oh, sure, the water is clearer than it’s been in decades. Racing sailors can see the keels of competing boats as yachts heel over to ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – A newly released study says cutting phosphorus levels is important for Lake Erie but isn't a cure-all for one of its biggest environmental hazards: "dead zones" where fish ...

Massive algal blooms covered thousands of square miles on the other end of Lake Erie in 2011. Some warn that the next ones could get worse — and closer — Toxic algae and Lake Erie’s dead zone ...

The record-low river flow into Lake Erie created a record-size dead zone in the lake's central basin. "The dead zone in 2012 was the largest we've ever seen," Michalak said, but 2012 was a mild ...

Lake Erie just can't catch a break. The lake has experienced harmful algal blooms and severe oxygen-depleted 'dead zones' for years, but now a team of researchers led by Carnegie's Anna Michalak ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Reducing phosphorus levels in Lake Erie is a worthy goal but not necessarily a cure-all for one of the lake’s biggest environmental hazards: “dead zones” with oxygen ...

Lake Erie's ecological calamities occur under different conditions, a new study finds. The lake's central dead zones are most strongly linked to drought years, when rivers that bring water into ...