Microplastics increase antibiotic resistance and damage plants' ability to photosynthesise, writes Fionn Ferreira ...

Every summer there they are again, blue-green algae. Why are they a problem, are they getting worse with climate change and ...

Winter brought a colder and icier season to the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, which saw a near-complete ice cover in ...

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution drives climate change, warming the planet and threatening human survival. Plants naturally ...

Imagine the world’s oceans with their beautiful blue color. Now, imagine that the same oceans were green. This is the intriguing possibility suggested by new research from Nagoya University in Japan.

Glacier-fed streams could well become greener in the future. © 2022 EPFL/Mike Styllas - CC-BY-SA 4.0 A pioneering study has ...

The water body located in Littleton and Lyman has suffered from frequent bouts of the photosynthetic bacteria, which feed on ...

A new study reveals that baleen whales, including humpbacks and gray whales, enrich oceans when they take a whizz.

Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich in oxygen (oxic) in the day, so you have energy to hunt for food, to ...

The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows them to thrive in a wide range of physical environments. Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have reported on the structure and light energy transfer efficiency of a protein complex crucial to the photosynthesis of purple sulfur bacteria thriving ...

For fraternal twins who share 50 percent of their genes, this rate drops to around 2 percent. Scientists have long suspected that gut bacteria may influence a person's risk of developing multiple ...