At the bottom of the Baltic Sea, buried beneath layers of sediment and sealed off from light and oxygen, ancient phytoplankton have been lying dormant for thousands of years. Now, researchers have ...

Palm oil is a very widely-used food ingredient, but its production has a huge environmental impact, plus it may not be entirely healthy to consume. A greener, "lower-fat" alternative could be on the ...

On clear days in Hartbeespoort, South Africa, satellite images often reveal a reservoir with shades of deep blue interrupted ...

Algae is a ubiquitous feature in waterways throughout the globe, including western North America. Slippery, green epilithic ...

Corals serve as a host to algae, which in turn produces sugars that the corals consume. Now, though, scientists have created 3D-printed coral that's even more algae-friendly than its natural ...

Kayakers and paddle boarders enjoying Lake Tahoe’s shoreline may see more algae this spring and early summer than in the past several years. Algae are small microscopic plants that use the sun’s ...

High-resolution scanning electron microscope images of fossil cell coverings of nannoplankton highlighting holes that would have allowed flagella and haptonema to emerge from the cell and draw in food ...

An international group of researchers has succeeded in identifying a previously unknown group of algae. As currently reported in the scientific journal Science, the newly discovered algae are found ...

Dail Laughinghouse wants to keep CNN from returning to Florida to get more pictures of green slime. He’s an algae slayer. And he saw a dragon in the footage of last summer’s bloom. It so happened that ...