Oil giant ExxonMobil’s decision to abandon its 14-year, multimillion-dollar support for research into making fuel from algae ended years of funding for projects at the Colorado School of Mines and the ...

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 ...

Algae has tremendous promise as an alternative fuel. But Exxon’s pullout from algae research is a major setback. An algae farm outdoor growth facility at General Atomics in San Diego. (Mark Boster / ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue-green algae are booming and blooming across Alberta this summer. And, while that’s causing headaches (literally) for some, it ...

Senior Research Scientist Mike Lomas works as director of the National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota at Bigelow Laboratory as well as the associated Center for Algal Innovation. Fritz ...

Marine animals like jellyfish, corals and sea anemones often live with algae inside their cells in a symbiotic relationship. The animals give the algae nutrients and a place to live; in return, algae ...

The oil giant has researched how to turn algae into fuel for cars and airplanes for a decade, and trumpeted those efforts as a sign of its climate commitment. But experts say the company is ...

New research has found that the dominant species of algae killing marine life along South Australia's coastline has been present in the state's waters for at least a decade. At the time, University of ...

University of Missouri professor Susie Dai works with lab-grown algae. She is the co-author of a new research study laying out how it can help remove microplastics from water. Tiny shards of plastic ...