The 2025 Algae Biomass Summit, held this week at Arizona State University, drew international biotech leaders and ...

Industrialization, modernization, increasing population, and technological growth are the leading causes of the energy crisis. The world population continues ballooning up, increasing the demand for ...

There’s a demand for new methods. Scientists develop jelly-like substance that could change farming forever: 'An important ...

Looking ahead to a day when Arizona would lead the way in algae farming, a Tucson lawmaker has proposed two bills that commercialize alga-culture and enable the UA and Arizona State University to ...

Additionally, instead of using expensive glucose as the carbon source, the researchers grew algae with sodium acetate — a far ...

An algae farm outdoor growth facility at General Atomics in San Diego. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) One by one, Big Oil firms have touted their investments in algae biofuels as ...

Harmful algae blooms have become a top water polluter, fueled by fertilizers washing into lakes, streams and oceans. Federal and state programs have spent billions of dollars on cost-sharing payments ...

As the world looks for ways to cool our warming planet and pivot away from energy and food sources that create the gases that heat it up, Europe has turned its focus to a surprising potential solution ...

Andrew Muir says mistakes had been made with farmers incentivised to increase production, contributing to pollution issues in ...

This article was taken from the February 2014 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

BORCULO, Netherlands -- Set amid cornfields and cow pastures in eastern Holland is a shallow pool that is rapidly turning green with algae, harvested for animal feed, skin treatments, biodegradable ...