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.

The event, organized by Ohio Sea Grant and Ohio State University’s Stone Laboratory, had been held annually at the Stranahan Theater & Great Hall each September since the 2014 water crisis, when an algal toxin made the city’s tap water unsafe to drink or touch the first weekend of August that year.

This year, the conference m

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