The Port of San Diego is keeping up its fight against an invasive algae spreading in San Diego Bay. The Port of San Diego received a $200,000 grant from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission ...

Some of the biggest ecological disasters start in the least likely places. Here it may have started with a home aquarium.

The Indian River Lagoon was considered one of the last "unpolluted coastal lagoons" in Florida in the 1970s. Fast forward to today and most of the 156-mile lagoon is now considered impaired because of ...

An invasive algae species in Newport Bay has the potential to disrupt Orange County’s entire marine ecosystem and coastal economy if not dealt with swiftly. SCCAT is comprised of governmental agencies ...

Biologists used the world’s largest single-celled organism, an aquatic alga called Caulerpa taxifolia, to study the nature of structure and form in plants. It is a single cell that can grow to a ...

A new bill prohibiting the sale, transport and possession of any species under the Caulerpa genus in California has just been signed into law late last month. The genus includes both Caulerpa ...

Caulerpa is a type of marine algae made up of one extended cell, though each plant can grow to be a meter across. While there are many individual nuclei within a Caulerpa plant, it contains no cell ...

Invasive caulerpa seaweed has spread to Whangārei Harbour for the first time. The ‘significant’ new find at the harbour entrance is horrifying the local community. About a square metre of the seaweed ...

An innovative Kiwi number-eight-wire approach has produced New Zealand's world-first large-scale submersible dredge planer, designed to remove extensive infestations of invasive caulerpa seaweed. The ...

2003-01-20 04:00:00 PDT Hvar, Croatia-- Beneath the surface of Starigrad Bay, the finger-shaped inlet that serves as this Adriatic island's main harbor, the invasion is well under way. Just off the ...