The significant advantage is that algae are a renewable resource and can be cultivated with minimal energy input – unlike the commonly used filter material, activated carbon. The researchers are now ...

On Jan. 23, the Florida Department of Health in Lee County (DOH-Lee) issued a health alert for the presence of red tide near Turner Beach on Captiva. It was in response to a water sample taken on Jan.

In the winter, Lake Mendota is covered in ice, but when this thaws in summer, it’s engulfed by algae. These cyclical shifts ...

What we see as waste can become a valuable resource that creates cleaner water and greener energy,' says researcher.

While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

What we call long-term monitoring, of course, is just a blink in the Washoe Tribe’s millennia-long relationship with Lake ...

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The research team offers a fresh perspective on the role that a unique group of microscopic algae play in carbon sequestration – the natural storage of carbon in the ocean. Microscopic algae known as ...

Red tide is caused by high concentrations of a toxin-producing microscopic algae, called K. brevis, that is found in the Gulf of Mexico. Red tide typically forms naturally offshore, commonly in ...