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Topic: Algae

Stirring A Cooking Pot (Getty Images/Catherine Falls Commercial)

Bacteria and algae: The future of food?

Sara Talpos - Undark
Tabular iceberg floats in a stormy green sea, Southern Ocean, Antarctica (Getty Images/Jeff Miller)

Greener oceans due to climate change

Troy Farah
An artist's concept depicts a greenhouse on the surface of Mars. (NASA/SAIC)

Could we feed a city on Mars?

Lenore Newman, Evan Fraser - The Conversation
Tabular iceberg floats in a stormy green sea, Southern Ocean, Antarctica (Getty Images/Jeff Miller)

Using the oceans to fight climate change

Sonja Klinsky, Terre Satterfield - The Conversation
Green algae cells (Getty Images/Videologia)

Algae offers answers to climate change

Jules Siedenburg - The Conversation
Hollow-Stemmed kelp underwater in the St. Lawrence River in Canada (Getty Images/LaSalle-Photo)

A gourmet revival for this marine algae

Lucie Beaulieu - The Conversation
TOLEDO, OHIO - AUGUST 4: Algae washes ashore from Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park August 4, 2014 in Oregon, Ohio. Toledo, Ohio area residents were once again able to drink tap water after a two day ban due to algae related toxins. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images) (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Toxic algae in the Great Lakes

Diana Kruzman - Grist
Gritter maintenance tractor spreading de icing salt on asphalt road (Getty Images/Lubo Ivanko)

Road salt is polluting our water supply

Eric Schank
Photomicrograph of algae (Getty Images/NNehring)

Using algae for stroke recovery

Nicole Karlis
(Getty Images)

Gene therapy may offer hope for blind

Matthew Rozsa
Algae floats on the surface of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Climate change is destroying our lakes

Matthew McCandless
FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the City of Toledo water intake crib is surrounded by algae in Lake Erie, off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Groups working to solve Lake Erie’s algae outbreaks agree that a key step will be targeting areas that are sending much of the algae-feeding phosphorus into the lake. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File) (AP)

Algae is taking over Lake Erie

Maria Gallucci - Grist
(AP/Paul Sancya)

Slimy politics: Algae oozes into Senate

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
A coccolithophore bloom in the Barents Sea (NASA Earth Observatory/Wikimedia Commons)

Lindsay Abrams

Brian Palmer
(<a href='url to photographer'>Ivan Cholakov</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Florida threatened by red tide

Joanna Rothkopf
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