The phenomenon is known as blue-green algae blooms," says Markus Steinkopf, a marine biologist at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW). The blue-green algae are competitively ...

At the height of summer, when people expect to enjoy the pleasures of living close to the sea, the surface waters of the Baltic Sea are covered by algal blooms. On the sea floor, vast dead zones will ...

The team has discovered the new algae species at the coast of the Baltic Sea. Credit must be given to the creator.

Potential Applications in Eco-Friendly Sunscreen The research team has identified the algae in the Arctic tundra near Svalbard and in sand samples from the Baltic Sea coast near Heiligendamm.