Plants can grow with much less light than previously thought, according to a new study on tiny water-based organisms called microalgae that has been published in Nature Communications. The German-led ...

Microalgae, tiny yet essential for the proper functioning of our climate, have just revealed a new secret. A team of scientists led by BIAM (CEA/CNRS/Aix-Marseille University) has discovered that two ...

The phytoplankton that populate oceans are known to play a key role in marine ecosystems and climate regulation. Like terrestrial plants, they store atmospheric CO2, and produce half of our planet's ...

According to a predictive model developed by a CNRS researcher and his European colleagues, the microalgae present in peat bogs could offset up to 14% of future CO 2 emissions, thanks to their ...

Embedded in the sea ice of the arctic are creatures so small, you can't see them with the naked eye. These microalgae convert energy from sunlight into fuel. The arctic ecosystem depends on them. In ...

You might not be able to stomach soybeans for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but the animals you eat do. Cultivation of the staple crop takes up an area five times the size of the UK, and 85% of that ...

Cross-section of a cell of the microalga Prorocentrum cordatum. The nucleus with the chromosomes is on the right. A single barrel-like chloroplast takes up 40 percent of the cell volume. What are the ...

Microalgae are tiny organisms that convert energy from sunlight into fuel. The arctic ecosystem depends on them. In springtime, the algae bloom... In the Arctic, microalgae are doing the limbo ...