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The fish is often raised in man - man ponds where stagnant water encourages algae growth, giving tilapia a muddy, off - putting taste.

Whole protein sources (such as algae, insects and Hinoman's new vegetable solution) could pick up the slack of slowing and unsustainable meat and seafood growth.

Terramino Foods used only plant - based ingredients including koji fungus and algae, plus a growth medium to mimic the muscle fibers of animals.

TICONDEROGA The recent North Country Algal Blooms Summit in Ticonderoga was part of a $ 65 million initiative to understand and prevent the growth of summer algae blooms.

He said although the current water purification mechanism used by the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) met World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, the guidelines were accepted at a time that Ghana did not have problems with algae growth in water sources.

The level of phosphorus, which causes extreme algae growth, has dropped dramatically in Onondaga Lake, the county's top water quality official told Onondaga County legislators today.

Runoff of phosphorus from sources like lawn fertilizer can end up contributing to algae blooms in water sources — accelerated growth that can make lakes and ponds hostile to marine life and treacherous for swimmers and other recreational users.

A coral reef is a type of biotic reef that develops in tropical waters by the growth of coralline algae, hermatypic corals, and other marine organisms.

That makes sense: Too much nitrogen in water promotes the growth of plankton, which can block sunlight, and algae, which can settle on the grass blades and smother them.

How will you get nutrients, such as phosphorus and nitrogen, to stimulate algae growth?

While the extra nitrogen is a rich resource for algae in the Gulf, driving the growth of massive algal blooms, excess nitrogen has a more deadly impact on other marine life.

In the lab, they also did an experiment to see if wash water from tunnels affected the protein activity in liver cells, or reduced the growth of an algae called Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata.

Sediment cores show that in the past, higher iron concentrations in the equatorial Pacific did not enhance growth of carbon - storing algae

The researchers found that warm waters and algae — both of which have become more frequent over the years — tended to precede bird deaths, likely because they promoted the growth of botulism toxin - producing bacteria.

Of course, making algae oil in any quantity remains a huge challenge, from perfecting the growth of the organism and its oil production to extracting the product in a cost - effective manner.

To grow these microorganism cultures in the lab, researchers house samples in petri dishes lined with a nourishing gel mixture derived from algae called agar growth media.

The elevated algae levels were caused by the higher phosphate phosphorus content of the surface layer before the growth season compared to last year.

The data used in Clarens» study came from previously published work about algae growth demonstrations since the 1980s, he said.

«Most recently, we completed Phase I of our SBIR grant, showing significant impacts on the growth of commercially relevant algae strains.

Algae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional cAlgae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional calgae with conventional crops.

Typically, algae growers «starve» the algae to boost lipid production, but that inhibits growth.

The rub was if algae are deprived of nitrogen, the cells become stressed and begin to produce lipids, but their growth rate slows.

Additionally, it is difficult to find land with suitable characteristics for algae growth and there are technical challenges of scaling up lab / pilot projects and cost effectiveness.

The purpose of the ALGIDA project was to explore algae growth in waste waters in Finland and how the condition could be improved.

Solix continues its work to increase algae growth rate and oil content, then reduce the capital and energy expenditures of production to keep costs below $ 80 per barrel.

(Iron fertilization enthusiasts focus on the Southern Ocean because other seas have much more natural algae, so growing blooms might just foster growth that would have happened anyway.)

Before the 2004 study, known as EIFEX, the European Iron Fertilization Experiment, scientists had conducted 11 experiments at sea to explore how trace quantities of iron may encourage the growth of algae.

Scientists on the Indian - German expedition, known as LOHAFEX, grew a 300 - km2 patch of algae in hopes that the plants» carbon would fall kilometers below, taking with it the atmospheric carbon it had pulled in during growth.

Researchers in Hawaii found that guppies released in the 1920s drove down native fish populations, perhaps by competing with them for food and living space, and had likely changed the cycle of nutrients in water: Guppy - rich areas showed increased levels of dissolved nitrogen — from ammonium in fish urine and gill excretions — which, in turn, stimulated algae growth.

Eventually, the fertilizing effects of these nutrients in surface waters can fuel the growth of algae that ultimately suck most of the oxygen out of large patches of coastal waters, creating what are colloquially termed dead zones (see Limiting Dead Zones).

These symbiont algae produce sugars that contribute to the diet of the coral in return for shelter and nutrients that are vital for algal growth.

This process of rampant algae growth leading to oxygen - starved waters is known as eutrophication.

Not only are elevated concentrations toxic to wildlife and even to people, but also even moderate concentrations can, if allowed to persist, fuel the explosive growth of algae.

Algae and cyanobacteria are complicated critters: although they can grow in open ponds, unwanted microbial strains can easily contaminate the water and interfere with the growth of the fuel - making strains.

Solar energy fuels the growth of the algae, which are then dried, ground up into a fine powder and burnt in the engine to generate electricity.

The centerpiece is a sealed growth chamber, or photo - bioreactor, made from a clear polymer to let sunlight through; inside is a strain of algae selected for its high rate of oil production.

Take, for example, reef - building coral, which contain tiny algae that allow for rapid growth even when nutrient stores are low.

The zones occur where fertilizer and sewage runoff, carried by rivers into the ocean, feeds the runaway growth of algae.

«But what we do see in the analysis of the data is an increase in temperatures and chlorophyll concentration across the bay and a changing relationship between nitrogen and chlorophyll — an indicator of algae growth and water quality — as those waters warm.»

«Climate change impacts on Buzzards Bay: Warming waters fuel algae growth, worsen water quality.»

New research suggests this type of algae — called Didymosphenia geminate, or didymo — is a native species, but the environmental conditions that trigger its visible growth in rivers were previously rare or absent.

The growth of these algae depends on nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus.

The researchers also tested the effects of the different sediments on the growth of the algae.

This increase in algae growth and chlorophyll means that water quality is worse for the same amount of nitrogen, which has big implications for water quality targets and clean up plans.

Excess nitrogen also boosts algae growth.

They found the sediments associated with the seagrass reduced algal growth, while the sediments associated with the algae had a positive effect on its growth.

In addition, Rheuban added, the warmer water temperatures are fueling an increase in algae growth.

«What we're seeing in the long - term data is that the same levels of nitrogen in the system results in much more algae growth than it did two decades ago,» Rheuban said.

Upon mixing with the surface layer, the water will cause an increase in the growth of filamentous algae and elevate the risk of blue - green algal blooms.