AUSTIN (KXAN) — Toxic algae blooms have plagued popular beaches and rivers in the past. Over the last several years, toxic algae in Lady Bird Lake has made the water unsafe and has been responsible ...

More than a century ago, biologist Winfred Emory Allen made daily morning trips to the end of the former wooden Scripps Pier in La Jolla to collect seawater samples. He recorded the capture of tiny ...

Plankton algae that supplement photosynthesis by eating other algae and bacteria may play a crucial role in the future Arctic As the sea ice shrinks in the Arctic, the plankton community that produces ...

Microscopic ocean algae produce a huge share of Earth’s oxygen—but they need iron to do it. New field research shows that ...

SAN DIEGO — Marine mammals and algae bloom experts gave an update Friday on a plankton that is harming hundreds of sea lions and dolphins. Scientists said they want to let people know what is ...

Wellfleet, Mass. and Woods Hole, Mass., August 4, 2009— Plankton Power and the Regional Technology Development Corp. (RTDC) of Cape Cod announced today the establishment of a public-private consortium ...

Behind closed doors at the Shedd Aquarium, green, orange and red water bubbles and gurgles in carefully organized jars and vats up to 5 feet high. In this water, microscopic organisms live, thrive and ...

LA JOLLALA JOLLA — Validating a 50-year-old hypothesis, scientists at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Jacobs School of Engineering in La Jolla say they ...

As the sea ice shrinks in the Arctic, the plankton community that produces food for the entire marine food chain is changing. New research shows that a potentially toxic species of plankton algae that ...

Plankton Power and the Regional Technology Development Corp. (RTDC) of Cape Cod announced today the establishment of a public-private consortium focused on building a leading-edge facility to produce ...