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1,414 results for: Algae

  1. Animals

    Not-OK Coral

    First big species audit finds coral extinction risks severely under-reported

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  2. Jungle Down There: What’s a kelp forest doing in the tropics?

    Kelp, algae that grow in cold water, turn out to be surprisingly widespread in tropical seas.

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  3. Paleontology

    Salty Old Cellulose: Tiny fibers found in ancient halite deposits

    Researchers have recovered microscopic bits of cellulose from 253-million-year-old salt deposits deep underground.

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  4. Earth

    The Costs of Meat and Fish

    The purchase price is often but a small part of the true cost of many animal products in the diet.

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  5. The Next Ocean

    Increasing carbon dioxide in the air is changing the pH of the ocean, which could mean very different communities of sea creatures.

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  6. Archaeology

    Lake-Bottom Bounty: Some Arctic sediments didn’t erode during recent ice ages

    Sediments in a few lakes in northeastern Canada were not scoured away during recent ice ages, a surprising find that could prove a boon to climate researchers.

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  7. Earth

    Rogue alga routed

    An invasive-species action team has eradicated one of the world's worst weeds, a marine alga, from a California lagoon, its only known foothold in North America.

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  8. Cell’s core pore structure solved

    Scientists working in yeast have deciphered the structure of the complex cluster of proteins that regulates access to the nucleus of cells.

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  9. Earth

    Let’s Get Vertical

    City buildings offer opportunities for farms to grow up instead of out.

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    No mention is made in this article of the huge amount of petrochemical inputs required both for large-scale farming of corn and for the distilling process required to produce ethanol. When these and other environmental costs are factored in, the promotion of corn-based ethanol as fuel will ultimately be exposed as an environmentally disastrous policy. […]

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  11. Physics

    Quantum Capture: Photosynthesis tries many paths at once

    The wavelike behavior of energy in chlorophyll might explain how plants are so efficient at using solar energy.

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  12. Chemistry

    Fish Killer Caught? Ephemeral Pfiesteria compound surfaces

    Scientists claim to have found an elusive algal toxin implicated in massive fish kills along the Mid-Atlantic coast in the 1990s.

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