Oliver Price, Daily Mail - April 23, 2023
Wild swimmers and bathers take note - an interactive map reveals the scale of toxic algae in Britain's beautiful rivers and lakes near you. Citizen-scientists across the UK have been report sightings of dangerous blue-green algae in local fresh waters bodies to the UK Centre for Hydrology & Ecology (UKCHE) through an app. Scientists then study the submissions to the Bloomin' Algae app to confirm if suspected sightings are in fact blue-green algae, which is not actually algae but a phytoplankton called cyanobacteria.