We are starting two rulemakings to update Washington’s water quality standards to help address freshwater nutrient pollution and the harmful, toxic algal blooms that can result from it.

Freshwater red algae are a diverse group of organisms that have attracted growing scientific interest due to their complex evolutionary histories and ecological significance. Recent advances in ...

The glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup has been found to trigger the loss of biodiversity among phytoplankton communities in freshwater ponds. In their experiments, scientists found that while some ...

All land plants originated from a single evolutionary event when freshwater algae got a foothold on land. The group of algae that would later give rise to land plants had already been living in ...

1. Phenotypic variation controls the species interactions which determine whether or not species coexist. Long-standing hypotheses in ecology and evolution posit that phenotypic differentiation ...

For 30 years, University of Tokyo Associate Professor Hisayoshi Nozaki has traveled an hour west of Tokyo to visit the Sagami River and collect algal samples to understand how living things evolved ...

Biological communities are rarely stable. Their composition is constantly changing, depending on the environmental conditions ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared six species of freshwater mussels found in Central Texas as endangered and another as threatened on Monday. Environmental scientists refer to freshwater ...