Microalgae are moving from petri dishes to building facades, promising to cool overheated cities while attacking carbon ...

Microalgae‑based architecture could soon come to Western Australia. A team from Murdoch University is ...

Algae may be found in oceans and lakes, but some scientists are hoping that the next place you’ll see these organisms is a coal-fired power plant. That’s because algae, which mostly reside in aquatic ...

Cyanobacteria have shown promise to produce citramalate, a key component for making sustainable plastics like Perspex. The University of Manchester team says that these photosynthetic microorganisms ...

Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide from the environment. They fix up to 20 percent of the Earth's CO2. A research team has now discovered a protein shell in these algae ...

Brilliant Planet's test facility with algae ponds in Morocco, as seen from the air. Forests sequester vast amounts of carbon dioxide but grow very slowly. What if we could grow a mature forest in a ...

Climate change is already fueling dangerous heat waves, raising sea levels, and transforming the oceans. Even if countries ...

23 July 2010 – Swedish utility Vattenfall has launched a pilot project using algae to absorb greenhouse gas emissions from a coal fired power plant in eastern Germany. The EUR2m ($2.6m) trial run, ...

In Slavic folklore, the Baba Yaga is a witch whose magic hut carries her through the woods on chicken legs, searching for children to gobble up. But living, breathing homes aren’t so far-fetched, ...

Formed three years ago, Gigablue says it has designed particles that when released in the ocean will trap carbon at the bottom of the sea. Gigablue says its work will do nothing less than save the ...