Experts: Toxin peaks aren’t as high, but algal blooms are lasting longer

Algal toxins produced within western Lake Erie’s water don’t appear to be getting as dangerous as they were just a few summers ago.

But Earth’s warming climate is keeping algal blooms themselves around a month longer than they were in the 1990s and a week longer than they were just six years ago.

That was one of the mixed messages that emerged from the latest community update for Toledo, an annual conference called Understanding Algal Blooms: State of the Science.

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