Parts of Southwest Florida beaches including Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel are seeing patches of harmless red-drift algae.

More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical lake. The setting likely ...

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Snow isn't always white; algae can make it look green, red, or orange, and scientists are trying to understand how and why these colorful patches appear.

Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate ...

Plant Physiology, Vol. 179, No. 2 (February 2019), pp. 382-390 (9 pages) Red algae (Rhodophyta) and land plants belong to the monophyletic clade Archaeplastida, and taxa of both groups are rich ...

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Chemicals released by red algae may be preventing collapsed kelp forests along Maine's southern coast from recovering, a new study finds. "Once kelp forests are lost, it's really hard to get them back ...

As the environmental costs of petroleum-based plastics mount, researchers are exploring renewable and biodegradable alternatives that are less harmful to ecosystems. One such alternative gaining ...

Some red algae exhibit structural color that gives their growth tips a blue hue and the rest of their bodies including their fruiting structures a white hue. Moreover, since the color-producing ...

“The inside of the structure that causes the coloration contains a substance that is highly reactive and may act as a feeding repellent to algae-eating fish. Such a repellant is more effective when ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Potentially toxic algae has been discovered at a park along Austin's Lady Bird Lake just south of the Tom Miller Dam. The city's Watershed Protection Department recently posted an ...