Divers recently sought evidence of the Palisades fire's underwater toll, particularly its effect on a vital anchor of the coastal ecosystem: kelp.

Sargassum seaweed is a problem throughout the Caribbean. But scientists have plans to transform it into a source of renewable ...

it can also lessen the pressure to find partners in the vast ocean. To understand how brown algae switched to hermaphroditism, Coelho and her team studied eight algal species: four that are co-sexual ...

Have you ever seen brown or green goo floating on a river or in the ocean? Or have you noticed how the walls of a fish tank sometimes turn green and slimy? These are all examples of algae—but there is ...

Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

Algae with domoic acid is sometimes called red tide, and biologists think runoff from the wildfires and ocean sediment ...

Domoic acid toxicity is caused by ocean blooms of algae called Harmful Algal Blooms ... Affected species include Brown Pelicans, Western Grebes, Brandt’s Cormorants and Red-throated Loons. Experts ...

The ocean seemed to reek of burnt trash ... But the only signs of the big brown algae were a few loose floating pieces and ...