Testing has determined that cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) toxin levels in Lacamas and Round lakes are far below the hazardous levels for contact with water. As a result, Clark County Public Health, Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation, and City of Camas Parks & Recreation today lifted an earlier advisory for people and pets to avoid swimming in the adjoining lakes.

Vancouver Lake is closed to swimmers due to E. coli and blue-green algae. Vancouver Lake Regional Park will remain open to the public.

The largest mass extinction in the history of the earth could have been triggered off by giant salt lakes, whose emissions of halogenated gases changed the atmospheric composition so dramatically that vegetation was irretrievably damaged.

Spring fishing season is coming and South Carolina'sLake Jocassee is inviting fishers to "unmatched" fishing opportunities in the lake.

Deep inside the Frasassi cave system in Italy and more than 1,600 feet below the Earth's surface, divers found filamentous ropes of microbes growing in the cold water, according to a team of Penn State researchers.

Boreal forest lakes suffer from 'aquatic osteoporosis,' Queen's-York research team suggests

After completing one of the longest running experiments ever done on a lake, researchers from the University of Alberta, University of Minnesota and the Freshwater Institute, contend that nitrogen control, in which the European Union and many other jurisdictions around the world are investing millions of dollars, is not effective and in fact, may actually increase the problem of cultural eutrophication.

IN CLOSE-UP, they look like something out of a 1950s B-movie. Colonies of fossilised creatures, dubbed "hairy blobs", have been discovered in one of the harshest environments on Earth. The find may turn out to be crucial for spotting signs of extraterrestrial life in rocks on other planets.

Throughout the overlooked depths of Lake Michigan and other Great Lakes, a small but important animal is rapidly disappearing.

Scientists in Turkey have warned that Lake Van in the southeastern part of the country will disappear in the next 10-15 years if no radical measures are applied to save it. Lake Van is regarded the fifth biggest lake in Europe.

Lake Nicaragua is not only the largest lake in Central America, but at 3,100 square miles, it is the largest body of fresh water between the Great Lakes of North America and Lake Titicaca on the Bolivia-Peru border.The aboriginal name for this lake, Cocibolca, means "sweet sea". It is the largest lake in Central America and one of the very few, or perhaps the only, freshwater lake to have sharks, although their numbers have dropped precipitously.

Lake Havasu City has blossomed into a hot recreation spot and offers a great getaway for a weekend or longer, especially during the cooler months of the year.