Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with oxygen.

High water temperatures and nutrient levels have led to a slick of cyanobacteria on the surface of Salto Grande lake, covering these capybaras in what looks like slime ...

Greater Wellington advises people to avoid contact with the water at Lake Wairarapa Moana, where red alert level warnings are ...

The resulting article, "Carotenoids from cyanobacteria modulate iNOS and inhibit the production of inflammatory mediators: Promising agents for the treatment of inflammatory conditions," has been ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean ...

The chicken-and-egg question takes a scientific turn when it comes to determining whether oxygen production through ...

Before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) around 2.4 billion years ago—when cyanobacteria helped drastically change the amount of oxygen in our oceans and atmosphere—Earth had very little oxygen.

2024 LITTLETON — One of the Department of Environmental Services’ lead scientists is cautioning that an expensive chemical treatment is not a cure for cyanobacteria in water bodies ...

Lakes Rotokauri, Waikare, and Whangape continue to have cyanobacterial health warnings in place, with an ‘extreme risk’ health warning at Lake Nga Roto. “People should avoid any activity in or near ...