Biofuel producers must look beyond waste lipids if they want to avoid a feedstock bottleneck; land-efficient, ...

It’s hard to green the desert. Take China, or Africa’s Sahel region, for example. Their “Great Green Walls,” grand projects to beat back encroaching desert by planting trees, have required decades of ...

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) researchers have deployed a buoy equipped with a series of instruments in Theewaterskloof dam, in the Western Cape, to gain deeper insights into ...

The principal researcher at the Ocean and Atmospheric Research Division, Yang Eun-jin, explained, "The decline of Arctic ...

Marine microalgae are vital drivers of Earth's carbon cycle, contributing approximately half of the planet's global primary production and sequestering tens of gigatons of carbon annually through ...

As global efforts to combat climate change intensify, microalgae stand out as an underutilized yet promising resource. New research has highlighted microalgae's capacity as a solution in the fight ...

Microalgae such as the diatom Odontella aurita and the green alga Tetraselmis striata are especially suitable as 'biofactories' for the production of sustainable materials for 3D laser printing due to ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Plastic waste is increasingly polluting our oceans and waterways. As plastics break down in the environment, they fragment into tiny pieces known as microplastics and nanoplastics ...

As climate change and a growing global population strains our existing food supply, scientists are looking on land and at sea for innovative solutions. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

For the first time, researchers at Umeå University have observed the same type of programmed cell death in microalgae as in humans. The discovery, published in Nature Communications, shows that this ...

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