As the climate warms and nutrient inputs shift, algal communities in cool, clear mountain lakes like Lake Tahoe will likely ...

Phytoplankton is an important component of the food-web and is predated by a wide variety of aquatic organisms, such as water ...

To help mitigate climate change, companies are using bioreactors to grow algae and other microorganisms that are hundreds of ...

Phytoplankton is the basic food source for many aquatic organisms. A new study shows that the light spectrum is more ...

All that feed corn and all those soybeans—and those nearly 25 million hogs—produce a lot of nitrate. It’s making Iowans sick ...

Millions of stocked fingerlings later, a competition among trout, white suckers and now tiger muskies roils below the surface ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

The interdisciplinary cooperation project PhotoKon could make a significant contribution to the regional bioeconomy by producing valuable chemicals directly from CO₂ and light, bypassing the need for ...

In 2020, right when Jane Baude was starting her Ph.D. research at UC Santa Barbara, she learned that a critical component of her experiment—the gel needed ... Stowers and their colleagues have created ...

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