A person has been poisoned by bacteria after swimming in an infested Canterbury lake. Te Whatu Ora last week issued a warning about toxic blue-green algae in Lake Hood near Ashburton. National Public ...

Toxic algae blooms contain a neurotoxin that is likely impacting the sea lions. Sea lions on the California coast are reportedly displaying strange behavior, likely due to a harmful algae bloom ...

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Also known as harmful algae blooms, red tides — the massive growth of algae that is tied to multiple organisms — are driven by wind and water currents, nutrients that run into the water ...

We studied the water under the microscope and extracted DNA for genetic analysis. Single-celled, microbial algae occur naturally in seawater all over the world. They are also called phytoplankton ...

Researchers knew that many species of algae produced energy-dense lipids that could be converted to biofuels, and teams around the world began to explore how to supercharge this lipid production.