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Study: Climate change could cause more toxic algae blooms

By Kyle Feldscher
Published December 21, 2015 5:01am ET
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Study: Climate change could cause more toxic algae blooms
This Aug. 3, 2014 file photo shows Algae near the City of Toledo water intake crib, in Lake Erie, about 2.5 miles off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. While Lake Erie is one of the smaller lakes in the Great Lakes system, the impact that such blooms could have on the Midwest could be fairly large. (AP File Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) | Haraz N. Ghanbari

In summer 2014, an unusually large toxic algae bloom in Lake Erie threatened drinking water for parts of Ohio, Michigan and southern Ontario.

Those kinds of algae blooms won’t be so unusual as the 21st century continues, according to a new study from Ohio State University.

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