The Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg areas recorded having to clean up some 800 tons of dead fish since July 1.

A startup is turning algae into foam, which could clean up local waterways. We went to Mississippi and Dongguan, China, to see how it's done.

Miles Laflin shows us how he cleans a swimming pool, including removing the algae, powerwashing, vacuuming, and cleaning the filters.

Researchers at UC San Diego have figured out how to turn algae and plants into 100% biodegradable flip-flops. The sandals aren’t yet available in stores, but the researchers founded a startup to try to make that happen. Investors have poured billions of dollars into algae research, and it could signal […]

Plastic pollution is everywhere - but the biodegradable algae flip-flops made by UC San Diego researchers could signal a change to that.

Plastic pollution is everywhere - but the biodegradable algae flip-flops made by UC San Diego researchers could signal a change to that.

A glacier in the Italian Alps is turning pink as algae eats away at its snow. Algae that changes the colour of snow or ice causes it to melt faster, a process which drives glacier melt across the globe. Glacier-eating algae could be seen more frequently as global temperatures rise. […]

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Algae are thriving in waters in record numbers thanks to rising temperatures, and are creating dead zones where a lack of oxygen suffocates fish and other marine life below. But like plants, algae absorb carbon dioxide to grow. Researchers are betting this ancient microorganism could combat global warming by drawing […]

A woman from Texas took her dog swimming in a river by her house earlier this month. It’s there that Tamra Massey believes her dog, Fina, ate toxic blue-green algae, she wrote on Facebook. She said that shortly thereafter her dog died. According to KENS5, Massey said the whole incident […]

A doggy play date in North Carolina went wrong when 3 dogs became fatally ill after swimming in a pond. Melissa Martin wrote on Facebook that she and Denise Mintz met up to spend time with their dogs, Harpo, Izzy, and Abby. But “what started out as a fun night […]

Sargassum seaweed has been washing up in unprecedented quantities on beaches in the Caribbean, Florida, and the Gulf of Mexico since 2011. It smells awful, hampers tourism, and harms wildlife. NASA satellites recently observed the largest seaweed bloom in the world, stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. […]

Jamba Juice on Thursday changed its name to just “Jamba” and unveiled a new menu and aesthetic. Jamba’s new menu focuses more on plant-based options. One of its new smoothies, the Vanilla Blue Sky, is made with spirulina, a blue-green algae. I tried the Vanilla Blue Sky smoothie and was […]

IKEA has a lab in Copenhagen that dreams up, researches, and designs sustainable ways to live. Some projects they are currently developing include algae hot dogs, virtual-reality furniture,self-driving cafés, and a future-food cookbook. Space10 was founded in 2015 and it works with specialists, experts, and creatives from around the world […]

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