algae
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Overfishing is also hurting corals as certain herbivores and predators help control algae and maintain an ecological balance, the organisation said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
A reef ecosystem collapses when hard corals -- which build its living foundation -- largely disappear and are replaced by algae, rubble and sponges.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
The snails were seen feeding on diatoms, microscopic algae that grow on rock surfaces, and they also consumed fish food supplied by the researchers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
For example, rising ocean temperatures risk fostering potentially deadly algae blooms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
People of all different ages play and splash in the pool, as if this is normal—as if the pool isn’t as big as a baseball field and holding water the color of algae.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Positively charged particles, including sodium, can then flow from the water outside the alga into the cell.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
This movement of charged particles sends a signal inside the alga that helps it swim.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Blue-green algae is not actually an alga but rather a type of bacteria called cyanobacteria.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023
Myriam Valero, a population geneticist at CNRS, the French national research agency, has been studying the genetics of the red alga Gracilaria gracilis for many years in the tidepools of Europe.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 27, 2022
She is curious; she wants to know the difference between an alga and a lichen, a Diplodon char- ruanus and a Diplodon delodontus.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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