Loren Hake

What's ugly, smells, kills dogs? Blue-green algae

Drought is fueling more smelly and dog-killing blue-green algae in parts of Upper Midwest. Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that's killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people.