Before plants evolved, vegetative life consisted of primitive green algae living in the sea. Like plants, these algae ...

Like many bodies of water, Lake Lipno is no stranger to cyanobacteria. The photosynthetic blue-green algae typically ...

A hidden pigment helps ocean algae harness sunlight without getting burned—and it may hold clues for better solar tech.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental ...

The City of Gainesville announced it had deployed three ultrasonic buoys in Lake Sidney Lanier to address persistent taste ...

A University of Missouri researcher is pioneering an innovative solution to remove tiny bits of plastic pollution from our ...

A tiny algae recently discovered in India is helping to reconstruct how the oceans moved millions of years ago.

A RED alert warning for blue green algae has been issued for the popular Lake Cullulleraine. Lake users have been warned that ...

If you’ve been to Fort Myers Beach lately, then you’ve probably noticed — and maybe smelled — the piles of red algae washed up along the coastline.

Although some kinds of blue-green algae are a perfectly normal part of natural systems, some varieties can spell trouble ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

Large-scale melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is irreversible and happening at a rapid rate, and now a new international ...