Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising temperatures are once again causing the world’s oceans to turn green.

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

When cyanobacteria proliferate out of control, they can form clouds of green algae called cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, or cyanoHABs. Some types of cyanobacteria produce toxins, and so ...

Before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) around 2.4 billion years ago—when cyanobacteria helped drastically change the amount of oxygen in our oceans and atmosphere—Earth had very little oxygen.

Lawmakers will consider a proposal to fund a years-in-the-making plan to carve a channel through Ross Island on the ...

Three women are suing the city of Auburn, saying they developed brain tumors as a result of the city's alleged failure to ...

BMAA is produced by cyanobacteria — also commonly referred to as blue-green algae — and can be found in freshwater, estuaries and marine waters in Florida and across the globe. A couple ...

2024 LITTLETON — One of the Department of Environmental Services’ lead scientists is cautioning that an expensive chemical treatment is not a cure for cyanobacteria in water bodies ...

It may be that oxygen in the atmosphere, thanks to emissions from photosynthesizing cyanobacteria and algae, were at levels needed to fuel the growth of more complex body structures and ways of ...

Indeed, chloroplasts resemble modern cyanobacteria, which remain similar to the cyanobacteria of 3 million years ago. However, the evolution of photosynthesis goes back even further, to the ...