Turquoise-blue water at McKinley Park’s duck pond. Savanna Smith ssmith@sacbee.com If you stumble upon the pond at McKinley Park on Alhambra Boulevard in Sacramento, you might find large ducks and ...

The alert was issued Friday after a water sample taken on Feb. 27 INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. — The Florida Department of Health in Indian River County has issued a health alert for Blue Cypress Lake.

Warnings of toxic blue-green algae blooms are proliferating as warmer weather hits California. Randall Benton rbenton@sacbee.com Two dogs have been killed by toxic blue-green algae in a Napa County ...

A man helps dock a boat at the Trimmer boat ramp at Pine Flat Lake in 2011. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA Fresno Bee file Blue-green algae has been detected in three central San Joaquin Valley lakes that poses a ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. (CBSMiami/CNN) -- A rare blue bee scientists thought might have become extinct has been rediscovered in Florida. The metallic navy insect, a blue calamintha bee, had only been ...

Researchers in Florida have rediscovered an "ultra-rare" metallic blue bee that hadn't been spotted in years – so long that experts weren't sure it still existed. A researcher at the Florida Museum of ...