Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality ...

While olive and avocado oils are well known for their benefits, have you heard about algae cooking oil? The word "algae" might make you question the type of oil it produces, but surprisingly ...

Now, researchers have revived some of these organisms, making them among the oldest known algae ever successfully brought back to life. The algae were retrieved from sediment cores taken 240 ...

Experts say what makes this year’s algae bloom significant is that it has sickened different animals compared to years past. “It does not look like we are close to seeing the end of this bloom ...

Every year, thousands of tons of brown algae are extracted from the seabed to obtain compounds such as alginates, a polymer composed of sugars that has high density and strength, offering potential ...

A toxic algae bloom is causing sea lions and other mammals and birds to become sick. Domoic acid toxicity is caused by ocean blooms of algae called Harmful Algal Blooms. The toxin causes ...

CEO John Warner said part of the problem is animals are eating fish that have consumed algae containing a toxin called domoic acid. "It's a neurological toxin. It affects their brains. They're ...

The aggression is linked to a toxic algae bloom impacting nearly 400 miles of the Southern California coast, mostly in L.A. and Santa Barbara Counties. Aggressive and erratic behavior isn’t the only ...

Dozens of marine mammals -- including dolphins — have been sickened by a toxic algae bloom off the San Diego's coast, according to SeaWorld. Although scientists have recorded domoic-acid blooms ...