A new study published by an international team of researchers led by Taro Matsuo, an astrophysicist at Nagoya University in Japan, argues that this evolutionary trend made sense 3 billion years when ...

Most people probably think of glaciers as massive blocks of white ice. But many glaciers have dark patches because of the ...

Researchers say chlorine in combination with ultraviolet light works to degrade deadly toxins created by harmful algae blooms in drinking water.

Treatment plants use a combination of tools to keep toxins and contaminants out of drinking water. Researchers with the ...

New research reveals that ice algae can store nutrients which may enable them to colonize more of the ice sheet, darkening and melting it.

Algae bloom is also known as greenwater, and if you’ve experienced it, you’ll understand why. Bloom appears quickly, and it ...

More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria started to produce oxygen in the primarily toxic atmosphere of Earth.

It has a green hue because of the presence of chloroplast within it. The alga exists as “single cells or can form clones up to a size of 64 cells,” per the study. It can be used for the ...

They are situated inside the chloroplasts of photosynthetic organisms, capture the energy from light, and transfer it to the reaction centre where chemical reactions take place.

Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green said Wednesday he plans to bring articles of impeachment against President Trump after he suggested the U.S. should take over Gaza. “The movement to impeach the ...

Certainly it is a blow to Gladstone, which has embarked on 10-year plan to shift its fossil fuel-based economy to renewable energy and green hydrogen production and export. “Gladstone has all ...

Symptoms include upset stomach, diarrhea, eye irritation and skin rashes. Blue-green algae are types of bacteria called cyanobacteria. They can be blue, bright green, brown or red, and can have a ...