At first glance, the lettuce sea slug (Elysia crispata) looks like a leafy underwater alien. But what’s hiding inside its ...

A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs consume algae and incorporate their photosynthetic ...

A team from Dalhousie University monitored eight recreational beaches over three years and found that though the genes that ...

More recently, though, I’ve noticed that microalgae are popping up more and more, to the point that I started to wonder: What ...

A Cornelius resident reported a “green floating growth” while walking his dog outside his condo. “Growth appears to have ...

Lake Garfield currently has several small blooms of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae. While officials have not closed the public beach, they are urging visitors to the lake to ...

Mannus Lake Dam in southern New South Wales was built in the 1980s for fishing. Landholders want it torn down at a cost of $13 million to stop blue-green algae blooms.

Blue-green algae blooms (or Harmful Algal Blooms) are an issue that usually occurs during the spring and summer. Calm, sunny, dry, and hot days of summer create ideal conditions for bluegreen algae to ...

In the second and third, which contain Great Lakes green and blue-green algae, the beads settled at the bottom. That's a problem for the environment, Gopalakrishnan said.

Blue-green algae blooms are appearing in the Caloosahatchee River in Florida. Exposure to the toxins produced by some algae can pose health risks to humans and animals.

Our research found that algae – the same green organisms often dismissed as pond scum – could offer a low-cost, low-tech way to clean domestic sewage.

In this study, red (Callithamnion corymbosum sp.) and green (Ulva lactuca sp.) marine algae biomass were used as biosorbents for the removal of Cu(II) ions from aqueous solution. Both marine algae are ...