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Scripps Oceanography researchers increase lipids yields in microalgae without compromising growth; potential boon for economical algal biofuels
2013-11-22 17:30:26| Green Car Congress
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Toxic Algal Blooms Connected to Climate Change and Industrial Agriculture
2013-10-25 14:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Nutrient enrichment and climate change are posing yet another concern of growing importance--an apparent increase in the toxicity of some algal blooms in freshwater lakes and estuaries around the world, which threatens aquatic organisms, ecosystem health and human drinking water safety. As this nutrient enrichment, or eutrophication increases, so will the proportion of toxin-producing strains of cyanobacteria in harmful algal blooms, scientists said. Toxic microcystin bacteria float, along...
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Climate and algal blooms
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: It only takes a slight temperature uptick to make our oceans more hospitable to algae. Along with excess fertilizer run-off, that's leading to increasingly toxic algal blooms that can sicken people who eat the affected shellfish. Ashley Ahearn from the public radio collaborative EarthFix reports. Transcript CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. As the planet's oceans warm, coastal regions are seeing more and more blooms of algae, often exacerbated by fertilizer and manure that runs...
Toxic algal blooms and warming waters: The climate connection
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KUOW: A photograph displayed in Jacki and John Williford`s home commemorates a camping trip that would go down in family history. The most memorable event from that outing in 2011 involved the mussels John and his two children collected from a dock near Sequim Bay State Park on Washington`s Olympic Peninsula. The family took them back to their campsite and steamed them in white wine with garlic and oregano. It was really good. Like the best mussels in the whole wide world, remembers their son Jaycee,...
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Solazyme and Unilever sign commercial supply agreement for tailored algal oil
2013-09-25 20:30:38| Green Car Congress
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