Algae is versatile, and a new species shows promise as a source of fuel. The Week. US Edition. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE. ... This is not the first time algae has been considered for fuel.

Fossils found in northern Africa and Germany suggest that many of their relatives were already living with symbiotic algae in the Devonian Period, which lasted from 419 to 359 million years ago. The ...

Knowing this, they hope to better understand, detect and predict when a bloom might occur, or even trace the algae to a ...

The Biofuel Bubble. In the 2000s and early 2010s, algal biofuels were touted as the fuel of the future; companies even promised to produce “fuel from thin air,” using only water, sunlight and CO ...

The first evidence of an algae bloom at Detroit Lake occurred May 8, said Lacey Goeres-Priest, Salem's water quality supervisor.

This isn't the first time possibly dangerous algae has been found in Austin's waterways. Since 2019, a blue-green algae called cyanobacteria has been detected each year in Lady Bird Lake ...