The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since 2011. A new model demonstrates that the alga was brought to the tropics by strong currents, and thrived in ideal growing conditions.

Brown algae are photosynthetic, multicellular, marine eukaryotes. These organisms have independently evolved several important biological characteristics, such as multicellularity, complex life ...

A USF study found that vertical currents are likely behind the algae blooms that dump sargassum onto Florida beaches each ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of ...

Have you ever seen brown or green goo floating on a river or in the ocean? Or have you noticed how the walls of a fish tank sometimes turn green and slimy? These are all examples of algae—but there is ...

A study suggests that several species of brown algae may have independently evolved to express both sexes simultaneously, and it’s likely that female algae evolved male traits—not the other way around ...

There are basically four types of algae, based on their color: green, blue-green, red, and brown. Green and blue-green algae are found in freshwater as well as saltwater. Red and brown algae are found ...

In the oceans, a new type of large brown algae, called kelp, latched onto rocks and corals in cool shallow waters, establishing a new habitat favored by sea otters and dugongs, a marine mammal ...

a harmful alga that dominates plankton communities during dense “brown tides” in North America, Africa, and Asia. B12-depleted cultures of A. anophagefferens (clone CCMP1984) adapted to lower ambient ...