(WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) has lifted the swimming advisory placed on Lake Anna over the summer — put in place as harmful algae blooms ... water or scums that are green ...

Researchers have discovered that the combination of green algae and yeast enhances the efficiency of wastewater treatment.

Complex multicellularity evolved independently in various eukaryotic lineages, including animals, plants, fungi, and algae. This evolutionary leap of going from one to many requires organisms to ...

Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have been inserted into hamster cells, enabling the cells to photosynthesize light, according to new research in Japan. It was previously thought that ...

"High nutrients, lots of sunlight and for some reason, they're trapped in a pool of water," she said. As the algae decays, it uses up oxygen in the water, which, depending on the environment ...

A large algae bloom was spotted around the Santa Monica Pier Tuesday, extending for miles down the coastline. Sky5 was above the “red tide” at 11 a.m. The bloom was seen “all the way down ...

Independently evolved brown algae develop this way, too. Diethard Tautz is at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, 24306 Plön, Germany, and at the Stellenbosch Institute for ...