algae
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During droughts, algae blooms have turned waterways bright green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The five-term senator said the categories of products receiving exemptions include corrugated paper cartons, plastic boxes, plastic bags, refrigeration and freezing equipment, packing and wrapping machinery, and seaweed and algae products.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
"Water levels in the lake have gone down which meant the blue-green algae has grown even more than it has done in the previous years," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
A reef ecosystem collapses when hard corals -- which build its living foundation -- largely disappear and are replaced by algae, rubble and sponges.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Finally, I resolved the problem by driving an oar, handle first, deep into the algae and tethering the boat to it.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Positively charged particles, including sodium, can then flow from the water outside the alga into the cell.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
You may never have heard of this single-celled alga, but sailors and fishermen know its effect very well: the P. lunula algae are the organisms that occasionally make the see glow blue.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024
Blue-green algae is not actually an alga but rather a type of bacteria called cyanobacteria.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023
Myriam Valero, a population geneticist at CNRS, the French national research agency, has been studying the genetics of the red alga Gracilaria gracilis for many years in the tidepools of Europe.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 27, 2022
She is curious; she wants to know the difference between an alga and a lichen, a Diplodon char- ruanus and a Diplodon delodontus.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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