While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...

Florida's Lake Okeechobee is already half full with toxic algae, and the bloom will only grow. Fumes from the algae can cause several health complications, like lung infections. Climate warming and ...

HENDERSON The Eastern Shore is known for vast soybean and corn farms, but if Patrick Kangas had his way it would be covered in slime. Kangas, a researcher at the University of Maryland, helped create ...

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Monday, Feb. 2, 2026 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 Algae are probably the most overlooked of all plants. These are aquatic plants that can be a single cell, or a 20-foot long ...

Thanks to a recent discovery regarding marine algae, scientists have developed crop plants that absorb a fuller spectrum of sunlight, resulting in better growth. The finding could also lead to ...

Advancements in closed loop photobioreactor systems are improving production economics. By 2025, LED-enabled photobioreactors increased biomass productivity compared to open-pond cultivation, reducing ...

BANDAR AL-ROWDAH, Oman (AP) — The Gulf of Oman turns green twice a year, when an algae bloom the size of Mexico spreads across the Arabian Sea all the way to India. Scientists who study the algae say ...