Tackling the seemingly endless number of issues climate change poses is going to take tons of creative solutions. Luckily for all of us, there are lots of people out there taking the challenge ...

Microalgae are moving from petri dishes to building facades, promising to cool overheated cities while attacking carbon ...

As tiny carbon-hungry organisms, algae play an important role in removing CO2 from the atmosphere, and a first-of-a-kind research expedition is set to highlight just how important that role might be.

With the growing demand for fuel and the concern of global warming, scientists are looking into producing ethanol or biodiesel from plants. Joel Cuello, associate professor of agriculture and ...

Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels, a start-up company, are set to announce Monday that they will build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol as ...

LONGMONT, Colo. — If you look out your window right now, you'll probably see something made of concrete. It's everywhere. Your driveway, parking structures, buildings; the list goes on. And that's a ...

The idea of using flat algae tanks on the outside of buildings as part of a sustainability exercise is not new. Indeed, back in 2013, Splitterwerk Architects and engineering company Arup teamed up to ...

Algae may be found in oceans and lakes, but some scientists are hoping that the next place you’ll see these organisms is a coal-fired power plant. That’s because algae, which mostly reside in aquatic ...

Prometheus Materials' blocks, made from algae-derived cement, will hit the market in 2023. Cement—the essential binding ingredient in concrete, bricks, and mortar—is a climate nightmare. To make it, ...

In the past, these tiny single-celled organisms slowed down the increase of CO₂ in the atmosphere – at a time when greenhouse gas levels were rising sharply Some Fourteen thousand years ago, algal ...