Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

A study of Kenya’s Winam Gulf is shedding light on how harmful algal blooms may evolve in a warming climate. Scientists ...

DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another—are key to bacterial evolution and the development of ...

When populations of tiny aquatic organisms called cyanobacteria (formerly known as blue-green algae) explode, their toxic overgrowth can threaten human drinking water and cause wildlife deaths in ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is far more interconnected than anyone realized.

This is the same green as you see on stagnant ponds. It’s caused by tiny organisms called cyanobacteria and can be deadly. Cyanobacteria thrive in warm, sunny lakes and ponds that contain excess ...

Lakes Rotokauri, Waikare, Whangape and Hakanoa continue to have cyanobacterial health warnings in place, with an ‘extreme risk’ health warning at Lake Ngā Roto.

High water temperatures and nutrient levels have led to a slick of cyanobacteria on the surface of Salto Grande lake, ...

Researchers have investigated the structure and light energy transfer efficiency of a protein complex crucial to the photosynthesis of purple sulfur bacteria thriving in high-salt, high-alkaline ...