This startup wants to green the desert using microalgae and agricultural waste
HyveGeo believes it can turn the desert green and remove carbon from the atmosphere – using biochar and microscopic algae.
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600 million years of shared environmental stress response found in algae and plants
On land, rapid shifts in environmental conditions lead to stress, and plants have developed an elaborate molecular machinery for sensing and responding. Now, a research team led by the University of ...
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Algae has a variety of uses and fuel may be next
"Using algae saves time and money while reducing waste, land usage and water usage." However, using algae for fuel and biodiesel production remains an issue. "The big test is whether [the algae ...
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Move Aside Solar, We’re Installing An Algae Panel
Unlike those other complicated land-based organisms that use photosynthesis, algae don’t need to build any structure to hold themselves up or collect sunlight; it floats. The real goal of the ...
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Evolution of plant network: 600 million years of stress
On land, rapid shifts in environmental conditions lead to stress, and plants have developed an elaborate molecular machinery for sensing and responding. Now, a research team has compared algae and ...
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Ecosystems – pollution and nutrient cycles – WJEC
Algae blooms prevent sunlight reaching other plants. The plants begin to die. Excessive nutrients (nitrates) from fertilisers are flushed from the land into rivers by rainwater. Oxygen levels ...
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600 million years of shared environmental stress response found in algae and plants
The closest algal relatives of land plants are the filamentous and unicellular conjugating algae, the zygnematophytes. This group of organisms has received major attention because when researchers ...