algae

Supporters think algae could someday be turned into cheap fuel for automobiles and airplanes, and are betting heavily with infusions of venture capital money and intensive research.

Experts say that within a decade it should be possible to efficiently process algae for fuel, helping to ease the world's energy needs and responding to global warming.

Giant floating fields of algae are back in strength this year on Lake Erie and scientists are trying to figure out why.

Scientists have found that a diatom can reduce the levels of the red tide's toxicity to animals and that the same diatom can reduce its toxicity to other algae as well.