Too much sun can ruin photosynthesis, scorching plants and other organisms that depend on capturing sunlight for energy.

Scientists in Italy built a water-absorbing gel from ocean plants that lets crops flourish with little irrigation, reported ...

Under the sea, green algae have evolved a clever way to handle too much sunlight. Scientists found that a special pigment ...

Marine algae, encompassing diverse groups such as brown, red and green seaweeds, are a vital component of coastal ecosystems and an increasingly important source of bioactive compounds. These ...

Scientists have discovered the gene that enables marine algae to make a unique type of chlorophyll. They successfully implanted this gene in a land plant, paving the way for better crop yields on less ...

An algae bloom that devastated the habitat of sea mammals last year in the Pacific Ocean, wreaking fatal havoc on marine life, has Los Angeles officials revisiting the tragedy months later, hoping to ...

ADELAIDE: A walk through the beach in the City of Holdfast with Mayor Amanda Wilson reveals a stark sight — stretches of ...

A toxic algae bloom in coastal waters has killed dozens of marine animals, including whales and dolphins, between San Diego and San Luis Obispo, and the area has been labeled an extreme danger zone by ...

Congratulations, Southern California. Experts say the worst of the deadly algae bloom is over. The Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro on Wednesday announced that “there have been no new patients ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Concerns about ...

Fluorescence image of coral Acropora juvenile polyps hosting the symbiotic algae (Breviolum minutum) that was used in the research paper, shown as red dots. Green color is the endogenous green ...