Amid escalating concerns over carbon emissions, a potential game-changer emerges from an unexpected source: algae.

Researchers have identified the organism that produces toxins found in the algal blooms that color Lake Erie every year. The University of Michigan used samples of Lake Erie water with an ...

Quick-growing blooms of bacteria and algae have long been a hazard in lakes and rivers, because of the toxins they produce.

A harmful algae bloom advisory has been issued for Lake Hogue in Poinsett County, the fourth such alert issued around the state in the last month.

The city has posted an online warning that even while beaches are closed, people should avoid contact with the water because the toxins in it could make you sick.

A light microscopy image shows the marine algae Braarudosphaera bigelowii, which is a potentially large evolutionary step. This algae absorbed a bacterium called UCYN-A and formed a new organelle ...

The researchers found that only Arctic diatoms can move through actual ice. Temperate diatoms (species from warmer waters) ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. As a teenager growing up in Nigeria, Helen Onyeaka was obsessed with microorganisms. The tiny lifeforms, which include bacteria and yeast, can be grown ...

A harmful algae bloom advisory has been lifted for Lake Desoto in Garland and Saline counties, two weeks after it went into effect.

When this occurs, blue-green algae can form blooms that discolour the water, or produce floating mats or scums on the water's ...

At the bottom of the Baltic Sea, buried beneath layers of sediment and sealed off from light and oxygen, ancient phytoplankton have been lying dormant for thousands of years. Now, researchers have ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A post from Herriman City on X said officials recently detected harmful algae in Blackridge Reservoir. The ...