Astronauts have captured a "bloody" phenomenon running through some of the Earth's lakes while on board the International Space Station. They took photographs showing bodies of water flowing in red ...

Scientists might soon be able to forecast when the see is gonna turn red - and don’t worry, it has nothing to do with the apocalypse. For the first time, researchers identified nearly a dozen viruses ...

Many people are flocking to the Gulf Coast for spring break. However, toxic red tide algal blooms have put beachgoers and residents on alert. In the Gulf of Mexico, red tide is caused by a microscopic ...

Florida's coast has been in the grips of a toxic red tide over the past few months that has killed thousands of fish, decimated seagrasses, and wiped out large numbers of other marine animals like ...

“The inside of the structure that causes the coloration contains a substance that is highly reactive and may act as a feeding repellent to algae-eating fish. Such a repellant is more effective when ...

Chemicals released by red algae may be preventing collapsed kelp forests along Maine's southern coast from recovering, a new study finds. "Once kelp forests are lost, it's really hard to get them back ...

Some red algae exhibit structural color that gives their growth tips a blue hue and the rest of their bodies including their fruiting structures a white hue. Moreover, since the color-producing ...