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 ...

New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals derived from tropical corals and seaweeds are ...

A bloom of harmful algae along our southern California coast continues sickening sealions and other animals. NBC 7’s, ...

Every year, thousands of tons of brown algae are extracted from the seabed to obtain compounds such as alginates, a polymer ...

Plunging into the murky waters off the western coast of Mexico, scuba divers watched the marine life around them. One particular fish with “long” fins and a “stretched”-out look caught their attention ...

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...

CEO Dr Marine Valton said: "We go to the farmers field and find the algae - in one gram of soil you have 5 million algae - microalgae - we select the best ones and scale up production to then ...

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 ...

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 ...

Also known as harmful algae blooms, red tides — the massive ... a postdoctoral researcher at the USF College of Marine Science, said in a statement. “Now that we’ve identified several ...

Greta Gaiani from the University of Technology Sydney says the toxic microalgae bloom responsible killing dozens of marine animals could be linked to warming waters.

Marine mammals and other animals continue to struggle with blooms of toxic algae on the Southern California coast. Sea birds and sea lions have already been sickened by the domoic acid-producing ...