Chonkus, a mutant strain of cyanobacteria seen here in a microscopy image, contains large white spots that appear to be carbon-dense granules. Those granules may explain why the cyanobacterium grows ...

Harvard Scientists Discover ‘Chonkus,’ Algae That Sinks Carbon for a Greener Planet Scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute ...

October 2024 will be remembered by the locals around Pyramid Lake, Nevada, for a rather unusual display of nature's colors ...

Extreme blooms of certain species can be harmful to marine animals... Blooms of cyanobacteria develop in the brackish waters of Nevada's Lake Pyramid. Floating, plant-like organisms reproduce ...

An unusual clam pulled from Lake Champlain in Whitehall last month has been confirmed as the first known occurrence of the invasive golden clam in the lake. According to the Lake Champlain Basin ...

Is the floating freshwater fern commonly called Carolina azolla the potential answer to global food insecurity or a possible threat to humanity? On the heels of a study published earlier this year on ...

Cyanobacteria were previously monitored and studied in California’s reservoirs, but research on the algae in river systems is in its early stages. Most known research on this type of algae has ...

By engineering photosynthetic cyanobacteria to live symbiotically ... that complex life forms got their start when one of ...