Every home aquarium owner knows the importance of keeping a tank clean. Contaminated water is the quickest way to spread ...

Where invasive, this aquatic plant can clog waterways and hurt water quality Reviewed by Barbara Gillette Water lettuce, or water cabbage, is a floating pond plant with fuzzy rosettes of leaves ...

Streptofilum belongs to the most primitive algal representatives within the streptophyte lineage, which is directly related to land plants. It originates from the era when freshwater algae ...

Dark algae that grow on the surface of Arctic ice sheets are likely to expand their range in the future, a trend that will exacerbate melt, sea level rise and warming. “These algae are not a new ...

A “fuzzy watermelon”-looking animal in Washington ... tapir calf that was born Feb. 2 at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. Her name means plum blossom and apricot in Japanese.