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We are taking a little more longer than we expected, sorry for inconvenience

We are taking a little more longer than we expected, sorry for inconvenience

[Global] Dear readers, due to large amount of data to be sorted and re-classified, we are expecting to take a few more days to open our new website to the public. We are working more than 12 hours per day now to get our new website online. Thank you for your patience and do stay with us. Meanwhile, we would like to provide our readers a few snapshots of our new website. Stay with us!   Kian Wee…

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Announcement: Algae World News is changing a new look

Announcement: Algae World News is changing a new look

[Global] Dear readers, we are in the midst of constructing a new web layout for our news website. This allows readers to have a better news browsing function and a more convenient reading experience, with our unique algae news grouping and classification method. Do stay with us during our maintenance period. On the 1st and 2nd of September 2015, we will not be posting news. However, readers may…

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Jim Lane: Algae fuels, the Earth Room Problem, and Osmotic Shock Around the Clock

Jim Lane: Algae fuels, the Earth Room Problem, and Osmotic Shock Around the Clock

[USA] You may have wondered to yourself — at some point between 2009’s Summer of Algae and now, in 2015’s Summer of Where Are the Gallons?  — “Gee, I wonder what happened to all those algae technologies that were going to fuel the world, are they still around?” What is the Earth Room Problem and how is osmotic shock helping us to solve it? The quick answer is that many of them are; most of them…

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Art made from seaweed and a dancing wardrobe feature in the postgraduate exhibition at Newcastle University

Art made from seaweed and a dancing wardrobe feature in the postgraduate exhibition at Newcastle University

[UK] A cyclist who studies manhole covers and a snorkler who swims with sharks helped to make a lively night livelier as Newcastle University’s Master of Fine Art exhibition opened to the public. The absorbing work by students on the two-year postgraduate course is on show until early next month at the Hatton Gallery. Alex Charrington’s exhibition of mixed media works on paper is the first you…

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Lettuces Now, What Next - Could Astronauts Get All Their Oxygen And Food From Algae Or Plants?

Lettuces Now, What Next – Could Astronauts Get All Their Oxygen And Food From Algae Or Plants?

Perhaps you saw the news recently about astronauts in the International Space Station eating their first home grown lettuce? It’s just a beginning, but in the future, could they grow all their own food and get all their oxygen from plants? The astronauts of the ISS eating their first home grown lettuce in space. Actually, it’s a first only for US astronauts. The Russian cosmonauts have been…

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How to feed the world, with a little kelp from our friends (the oceans)

How to feed the world, with a little kelp from our friends (the oceans)

[USA] Paul Dobbins works on a farm that needs no inputs — no fertilizer, no pesticides, no water. Oh, and it doesn’t use any land either. This farm increases wildlife habitat simply by existing. It causes no erosion, cleans up pollution, and it captures more carbon than it releases. That may sound more sci-fi than vertical-farm skyscrapers, or vat-grown meat, but it’s not. Farms like this are…

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The Maine Seaweed Festival highlights different uses of seaweed

The Maine Seaweed Festival highlights different uses of seaweed

[USA] A Maine festival hopes to show the public that the future is here, and it’s covered in seaweed. The Maine Seaweed Festival will take place Aug. 29 at the South Portland campus of Southern Maine Community College. (more…)

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Treasures of the Sulu Sea threatened

Treasures of the Sulu Sea threatened

[Philippines] Morning has broken in Cagayancillo, at the heart of the Sulu Sea. On the coast of this remote island, the gentle hum of a boat engine grows into a roaring chorus to signal the start of a new day. Hundreds of fishers head out to harvest generous bundles of seaweed. Others steer their boats to deeper waters, where fish abound. Cagayancillo, Palawan’s precious jewel, is a small…

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Denso plans test facility to produce biofuel from microalgae

Denso plans test facility to produce biofuel from microalgae

[Japan] Denso Corporation is to build a large 20,000 square metre test facility for the culture of Pseudochoricystis ellipsoidea, an oil-producing microalga patented by Denso that is used to help reduce CO2 emissions. The new facility located in Amakusa, Kumamoto, Japan and will be used to perform verification tests needed to establish large-scale microalga cultivation technologies required to…

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How whales change climate

How whales change climate

[USA] When whales were at their historic populations, before their numbers were reduced, it seems that whales might have been responsible for removing tens of millions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere every year. Whales change the climate. The return of the great whales, if they are allowed to recover, could be seen as a benign form of geo-engineering. It could undo some of the damage we…

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No focus on commercial seaweed production in AP

No focus on commercial seaweed production in AP

[India] Despite the availability of seaweed in coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, the governments are not focusing on commercial production, studies revealed. The areas surrounding Pulicat Lake are abundant with seaweed. The weed is useful for producing Agar, a laxative, an appetite suppressant and culinary ingredient which also used as a substitute for thickening soups, preserving…

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Local technology students turn Sargasso into fertilizer

Local technology students turn Sargasso into fertilizer

[Mexico] Local university students may have found a new use for the masses of unwanted Sargasso that’s been accumulating along Cancun and Riviera Maya beaches. A group of technology students from Tech Felipe Carrillo Puerto say that the kelp can be collected from the beaches, composted and used as fertilizer on farms in local villages. Coral Horacio de Jesus Aguilar, director of the Federal…

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UNK professor Twigg aims to find better plants for biofuels with help from students

UNK professor Twigg aims to find better plants for biofuels with help from students

An important next step in U.S. biofuels development may be found in Paul Twigg’s University of Nebraska at Kearney greenhouse. Or on his acreage north of Kearney. Or maybe even in some UNK-grown algae. The UNK professor of biology and some of his student researchers are looking deep inside switchgrass, algae and alfalfa on cellular and molecular levels to learn about traits that can make the…

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Deborah McArthur, Nature Connection: Taking a look at sensational seaweeds

Deborah McArthur, Nature Connection: Taking a look at sensational seaweeds

[Global] Kayaking this cove is like paddling through human-sized noodle soup. Thickets of Nereocystis seaweed surround the boat. This species is also known as “bull whip kelp” for the long, thin stipes that rise from the deep. The end of each kelp rope holds an air bulb about the size of a tennis ball. A line of leaf-like blades on the balls are similar to a Mohawk; or while floating on the…

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LED device uses wireless tech, algae gene to manipulate mouse brains' neurons

LED device uses wireless tech, algae gene to manipulate mouse brains’ neurons

[USA] Scientists have developed a lightweight light-emitting diode (LED) device that wirelessly stimulates nerves in mouse brains, in order to map its functions. They used a peppercorn-size glowing implant weighing 20 to 50 milligrams to activate neurons in the rodents’ CPUs, spinal cord, or limbs; and green algae to make the brains responsive to the LED. The lightweight device was developed by a…

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Presenting edible cuteness from the sea — it’s cat-shaped seaweed!

Presenting edible cuteness from the sea — it’s cat-shaped seaweed!

[Japan] What comes to your mind when you hear the word seaweed? Some of you may think of the black sheet of nori used to wrap sushi rolls and onigiri rice balls. But that’s seaweed processed into just one particular form, and there are many other ways seaweed is used in Japanese cooking — in soup to obtain stock, for example, or stewing with a variety of vegetables and meat or seafood a slightly…

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Why no seaweed in Galveston this year? Thank the ocean currents

Why no seaweed in Galveston this year? Thank the ocean currents

[USA] A year ago, Galveston and parts of the Texas coast were awash with sargassum, the technical name for seaweed, as the stinky stuff made its way to shore and ruined a day on the sand for thousands of beachgoers. So where is the seaweed this year? You can thank a slight direction in ocean currents, says a Texas A&M University at Galveston professor. Tom Linton, assistant professor of marine…

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