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Toxic algae, seaweed and red tide threatening Florida waters and beaches
Tourism, fishing and public health are being threatened by contaminants discoloring stretches of beaches at the southern end of the Florida peninsula. Blue-green algae that covers much of Lake Okeechobee has been growing and flowing through canals connecting the freshwater lake to sensitive estuaries on ...
The pond scum that may one day fuel planes
The future of Japan's biofuel industry may be pond scum. Or more specifically, green algae that's swirling around in tanks on a tropical Okinawan island. That's what Mitsuru Izumo and his company Euglena Co. are counting on anyway. After 10 years developing the algae as ...
Ocean algae can evolve fast to tackle climate change, study finds
Tiny marine algae can evolve fast enough to cope with climate change in a sign that some ocean life may be more resilient than thought to rising temperatures and acidification, a study showed. Evolution is usually omitted in scientific projections of how global warming will ...
Japan's airlines hope to power planes using biofuels by 2020
An association of Japanese airlines and other entities announced an initiative on Wednesday aimed at enabling the use of biofuels to power passenger jets by 2020, in an attempt to reduce carbon emissions. Launched in May by 33 companies and organizations to develop and use ...
Algae underfunded in energy hunt
Could algae power your car? In the search for new energy sources, scientists are turning the green goo into oil. While the technology itself is not new, Japanese scientists say they believe oil from aquatic algae could become an important raw material as biomass technology ...
