Oceans conceal unexpected treasures, including a common marine algae that plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth's climate. A new study reveals that this algae is responsible for producing ...

Algae, more complex than bacteria but still ... revealed the phosphate nutrient outburst following the Snowball Earth, says the new revelations are "incredibly important". "It gives the first ...

The algae industry in general is still fairly new and growing and ... environmental action from a business perspective. Some of Earth's oldest crust is disintegrating. No cause for alarm, folks.

Scientists have found new evidence that desertification, potentially linked to global warming, leads to large amounts of ...

new measurements confirm. On Alaska’s Harding Icefield, these microbes are responsible for about a sixth of the snowmelt in algae-tinged areas, researchers report September 18 in Nature Geoscience.