Andros Island in the the Bahamas features a hidden world of blue and black holes, pockmarking the coastline and interior.

As sea ice disappears and gives way to open water, the underwater light environment shifts from a broad spectrum of colors to a narrower, blue-dominated spectrum. This spectral change is crucial ...

Offshore flooded caves, so-called ocean blue holes, are extensions of the ... hydrogen sulfide in higher doses can cause delirium and death. Bacteria color the water at a depth of 30 to 36 feet ...

IN order to investigate the presence of different physiological groups of bacteria in the different layers of the bottom sediments of the Dead Sea 1,2,3 ... dark-blue, grey, brown, and white ...

Satellite images taken from space show the Red Sea as a blue line running roughly from ... When the algae die off, the water takes on a reddish-brown color as the dying algae spread across the ...

Hydrothermal vents in the deep sea are fascinating ... the edible blue mussel. From such towering chimneys hot, mineral-rich water gushes out of the seafloor. Back in the Bremen and Vienna labs the ...

Researchers led by Utrecht University bioinformatician Aldert Zomer have now pinpointed genes that allow bacteria to make use of this vivid phenomenon too. Where colors emitted by pigments are the ...

By changing the blueprints in the organism, bacteria can be modified to be more useful in applications like sustainable biofuel generation. Blue Sky Science is a collaboration of the Wisconsin ...

Researchers have discovered two new and unusual species of bacteria in deep-sea coral in the Gulf of Mexico. The discovery, announced in the journal Nature Communications, points to a type of life ...

Bacteria are eating it. A new study by the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) has proven that the widespread bug bacterium Rhodococcus ruber digests plastic, turning it into ...