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

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

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 ...

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

By engineering photosynthetic cyanobacteria to live symbiotically inside yeast cells, the bacteria-yeast hybrids can produce important hydrocarbons, paving new biotechnical pathways to non ...

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

When cyanobacteria proliferate out of control, they can form clouds of green algae called cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, or cyanoHABs. Some types of cyanobacteria produce toxins, and so ...

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

BMAA is produced by cyanobacteria — also commonly referred to as blue-green algae — and can be found in freshwater, estuaries and marine waters in Florida and across the globe. A couple ...

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 ...

In a press release, Dr. Chris Gill, a VIU chemistry professor and co-director of VIU’s applied environmental research ...