The film explores the significance of algae, a vital group of simple plants found in various environments, particularly in ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

A recent study finds that algae can store nutrients, potentially allowing them to spread across more of the ice sheet, ...

The authors emphasized the need for a multidisciplinary approach to addressing global challenges involving algae and aquatic ecosystems. They focused on several main points, including the ...

Researchers are newly documenting a community of algae that hang around just under the ice surface using samples collected by ...

Benthic algae and plants provide food and shelter for young fish and smaller organisms, which in turn draw in larger fish. The nearshore zone, and associated benthic zone, is a uniquely sensitive part ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of ...

One major breakthrough was the discovery that the algae is not alone. A whole ecosystem of microorganisms live on the ice: Bacteria, fungi and even viruses. But this made it hard to do specific ...