There’s no question we’ll keep finding really, really interesting biology in these vents. I can’t stress enough that this was ...

Tucked away in the most extreme nooks and crannies of the Earth are biodiverse galaxies of microorganisms — some that might ...

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 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Is the floating freshwater fern commonly called Carolina azolla the potential answer to global food ...

This is in stark contrast to the bacteria that take over during the Snowball Earth period. These bacteria are actually almost the same as the cyanobacteria (formerly erroneously called blue-green ...

The life forms are composed of a fungus (kingdom Fungi) and most often a green alga (kingdom ... it is dependent upon another life form to provide that essential function. Green algae and ...

Chonkus was first collected in seawater samples taken from shallow volcanic seeps near the island of Vulcano. Since these ...

An international coalition of researchers from the United States and Italy has discovered a novel strain of cyanobacteria, or algae, isolated from volcanic ocean vents that is especially adept at ...

Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University Researchers have discovered a special strain of marine cyanobacteria that consume and store carbon dioxide at a rapid rate. With a unique density that ...

Living on Arlington Pond in Salem, Republican Rep. Lorie Ball saw the state’s cyanobacteria problem up close. The blooms, and frustration from neighbors, led her to sponsor a bill to stem the ...

A harmful algal bloom was identified in the lake, located south of Nampa in the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, with high levels of toxin-producing cyanobacteria. These toxins can be harmful ...

Blue-green algae (BGA) can be harmful to humans and animals. Health officials recommend that waterways impacted by the cyanobacteria be avoided for at least two weeks after the slime on the water ...