We may smell it first, warned environmentalist Rae Ann Wessel. She was right. Along a wall of mangroves, the stench last week advertised of something to be buried. It was a greeting to Fort Myers’ ...

Some red algae exhibit structural color that gives their growth tips a blue hue and the rest of their bodies including their fruiting structures a white hue. Moreover, since the color-producing ...

When Marcy Cornell’s toddler son “couldn’t breathe” on the first day of their recent Florida vacation, she took him straight to the emergency room. “Before they even asked me anything else … they said ...

Arranged diatoms, a single-celled algae, on a microscope slide in the Cal Academy of Sciences Diatom Collection. Credit: California Academy of Sciences Geology/flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 When you think of ...

Vince Lovko, a phytoplankton ecologist at Mote Marine Lab, crisscrossed the waters off Longboat Key in his lab’s Yellowfin fishing boat earlier this month with a crew of researchers, sampling sea ...

Could algae, the fish-killing bane of Lake Okeechobee and Florida’s coastal waters, actually become a valuable state product? Think orange juice, except green, slimy and terrible tasting. The U.S.