A green alga that grows ... outdated and restrict the term Algae to eukaryotic organisms. All true algae therefore have a nucleus enclosed within a membrane and chloroplasts bound in one or ...

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 ...

Algae don't get the credit or attention they deserve. They are responsible for much of the oxygen we breathe, play pivotal ...

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

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

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

causes the algae to spread. Climate change is causing the green tide, which can last for several weeks, to become “increasingly recurrent,” damaging ecosystems, he said. In people, mild exposure to ...