Algae oil is a plant-based oil derived from algae, plant-like microorganisms that live in aquatic environments. When you think of algae, you might picture the green film that floats in ponds or covers ...

Algae cooking oil is made with microscopic, plant-like organisms grown in tanks to rapidly increase their weight, then pressed just like olives are for olive oil. Algae cooking oil contains more ...

When Takashi Amano introduced the Yamato numa shrimp to his planted tanks in the early 1990s, he revolutionised natural algae control. This see-through, unassuming freshwater shrimp eats algae ...

Got a problem with algae in your aquarium? These fish will all earn their keep by helping to keep it under control... As our tanks become increasingly smaller we need to find similarly sized nano ...

Scientists have found new evidence that desertification, potentially linked to global warming, leads to large amounts of nutrient-rich dust landing in the sea, causing ocean algae to grow rapidly.

Now, a pioneering group of Caribbean scientists and environmentalists hope to turn the tide on the problem by transforming the troublesome algae into a lucrative biofuel. They recently launched ...