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Not exact matches
More than a few customers are hovering
on the sidewalk, waiting for a table, eyeing diners as they munch
on menu items like the Blue Smoothie Bowl with e3 live blue
algae; the fish tacos with citrus slaw, chipotle aioli and mango herb sauce; and corn fritters with poached egg, avocado salsa and fresh greens.
Hoping for
more help, Cayuga County calls
on state, feds for additional action around blue - green
algae
Their study, published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, documents a coral bleaching event in the Caribbean in minute detail and sheds light
on how it changed a coral's community of
algae — a change that could have long - term consequences for coral health, as bleaching is predicted to occur
more frequently in the future.
But if the reef hosts plenty of parrotfish — which graze
on algae and keep the reef clean — the coral will be
more likely to come back.
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.
With
more algae, there are
more bugs available for salmon to eat, allowing the fish to forage
more on the bottom.
Because the toxins are energetically costly to make, biologists have long wondered whether they are
more than just a way to defend
algae from getting eaten or preventing competitors from moving in
on their space.
Then in 1997 and 1998, they and their colleagues sampled copepods in the Adriatic Sea during diatom blooms in winter, when the copepods feast primarily
on diatoms, and during the summer, when diatom numbers are down and copepods eat a
more mixed diet that includes other
algae.
(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.)
Letting the
algae provide the cellular energy likely makes the fungal partner
more efficient, perhaps allowing it to focus
on building a stable structure and reproducing.
Much of Krejci's research so far has focused
on trying to work out how the
algae generate the crystals, with an eye to making the process even
more strontium - selective.
Researchers at Grand Valley State University's Annis Water Resources Institute are learning
more about the impact invasive zebra mussels and native aquatic insect larvae have
on the risk of
algae blooms in two West Michigan lakes.
A startup could
more easily select a preferred strain of
algae, grow it in a man - made pond
on land, and oversee the process, he said.
When these died, the water cleared, allowing
more light to reach larger
algae growing
on the bottom of the pond — the snails» food.
Because fungi take the
more dominant role and cultivate photosynthesizing
algae for food, in return providing them a shady, moist, vitamin - rich environment, scientists have classified lichens based
on their fungi species.
Xiao compared the fossils with modern embryos and concluded that he was looking not at
algae but at something far
more breathtaking: embryos of some of the first animals
on Earth.
It has long puzzled scientists why, after 3 billion years of nothing
more complex than
algae, complex animals suddenly started to appear
on Earth.
After over three billion years of evolution in the oceans, multi-cellular life — beginning with green
algae, fungi, and plants (liverworts, mosses, ferns, then vascular and flowering plants)-- began adapting to land habitats by creating a new «hypersea,» and adding anomalous shades of green to Earth's coloration
more than 472 million years ago (Matt Walker, BBC News, October 12, 2010; and Qiu et al, 1998 —
more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants
on Earth).
On oxygenated seafloors, the first multi-cellular lifeform (possibly an eukaryotic
alga) appears to have evolved by Year 2.4 billion as the 12 - centimeter or 4.7 - inch protoctist, Grypania (
more from BBC News and New Scientist).
Scientists have generally believed that
more algae —
more specifically, the type known as phytoplankton — would be good for the climate, since they thrive
on CO2 while alive, then carry the carbon they've absorbed down to the sea bottom when they die.
Eventually, however, terrestrial red and green
algae and the first lichens developed
on land and the final big rise in oxygen may have been caused by the «greening of the continents from around 800 million years ago,» when these simple early lifeforms
on land steadily spread and broke down rocks that sustained a higher rate of erosion and led to the release of
more nutrients into the oceans that stimulated even
more photosynthesis by
more newly evolved
algae as well as older cyanobacteria (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010).
Recent research shows that there is high microbial activity
on glacial surfaces (Anesio et al., 2009), some associated with pigmented
algae, which absorb significantly
more light than local inorganic dust particles
on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS)(Lutz et al., 2014).
Though the species spends a lot of its time feeding and spawning
on an
algae - covered rock shelf right at the surface, divers must descend
more than 100 feet in two - person teams to count the farthest - flung fish using a standardized search pattern that has been in use since the 1970s.
Farmed fish raised
on grain - based diets and vegetable oils, as opposed to
algae, have less of the good fats and
more of the bad saturated fat — much like grain - fed livestock.
Marine phytoplankton is potentially hundreds of times
more bioavailable than any other
algae (or any other food source)
on Earth and is packed with
more nutritive power than all «super-foods» combined.
This phytonutrient is produced naturally in specific
algae that pass
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However, each of its ingredients is organic and it includes
more on traditional greens like wheatgrass and
algae, alongside a dash of the adaptogen ashwaghanda.
This type of
algae is harvested from lakes in warmer climates such as Africa or South America, but it is also being grown and utilized
on a
more local basis too.
Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetab
Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied
on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetab
algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since
algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetab
algae contains 1,000 times
more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of
algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetab
algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).
has the perfect, recommended dose of EPA to DHA,
more potent than any other fish oil
on the market (and
more potent than
algae oil, which often only has DHA)
When not idling his days away watching episodes of The Sweeny or setting traps to catch the «invasion» of raccoons
on his property, Len (Rhys Ifans) can be found enjoying the casual embrace of the cold and rank water that inhabits his «back - to - nature» style swimming pool — complete with weeds,
algae and pond life
more commonly found in a flee infested bog.
This
algae prefers shallow, near shore, rocky bottoms and is
more common
on the northern parts of Ambergris Caye.
I think some research shows corals expelling their symbiotic
algae at higher temperatures, which will make growing
more difficult, leading to greater difficulties in keeping the productive population at the proper depth, and they've got decreased ability to build their calcareous skeletons (due to the dissolving CO2)
on top of all that.
This is because you can get far
more energy from crops grown in the tropics,
on the same size of land, and for the same inputs (biodiesel from
algae would be different, but is only at the R&D stage).
To learn
more about how communities in and around tropical seas can act locally to boost reef resilience (for instance, by limiting the harvest of
algae - eating fish), please revisit my Pace University students» film
on reef conservation in the Caribbean, focused
on Curacao:
There are dozens of companies and
more universities working
on algae to biofuel processes.
The question remains: Is Big Oil's investment in
algae biofuels based
on confidence in a credible alternative to fossil fuels, or is it nothing
more than a public relations stunt?
Both those ventures rely
on genetically - tweaking
algae to make it churn out
more fuel.
Biosequestration of CO2 using
algae seems a far
more maintainable option than re-afforestation (which is good
on other grounds).
Trees, plants, plankton,
algae and very living thing
on earth are growing faster, stronger, and higher and
more productively than ever before!
«The
more meltwater you will generate
on the surface, the
more algae you will get growing there, the
more melting — and that's the feedback loop,» says Stibal.
New research shows
algae growing
on the Greenland ice sheet significantly reduce the ice sheet's surface reflectivity and contribute
more to its melting than dust or black carbon.
Query, if CO2 increased terrestrial vegetative growth, does it have an impact
on algae growth in the far
more important marine ecosystems.
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Like their previous «tweetable cyber-garden,» this canopy will react to visitors» kinetic movements and factors like sun by growing
more algae on sunnier days to create
more shade, or vice versa — all of it in real - time.