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Plant and Environmental Science

illustration: CO2-eating E coli
23.06.2016

Weizmann Institute scientists engineer bacteria to create sugar from the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide

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alagal bloom in the North Sea
13.07.2015

Sea breezes may play an unwitting role in the decimation of giant algal blooms

Satellite image showing a patch of bright waters associated with a bloom of phytoplankton in the Barents Sea off Norway. Image courtesy of Norman Kuring, Ocean Color Group at Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
21.10.2014

Understanding how viruses attack giant algal blooms may help us understand their role in fixing global carbon