In an interesting twist, some of the world's smallest microscopic organisms, collectively called phytoplankton, can come together in structures known as blooms, which can be seen from orbit. Now experts try to understand why phytoplankton blooms develop. According to investigations, it would appear that the bloo... |
28 October 2010
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A novel type of the important plant pigment chlorophyll has been recently identified. The finding could lead to the development of new methods to produce biofuels more efficiently. Until now, the chemical was known to be sensitive to only a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, but the new discovery extend... |
20 August 2010
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If ocean waters turned from greenish to blue, that would seriously affect the path and the number of hurricanes, according to a research carried out by a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.The team's leader, Anand Gn... |
14 August 2010
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Scientists investigating the green sea slug have made some incredible discoveries. It would appear that the creature has “stolen” numerous genes from plants during the course of its evolution, which means that it is now the only creature in the world that can produce chlorophyll. The finding is remarkable... |
12 January 2010
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While European poets and writers have for centuries written about the beauty of the yellow canopies in autumn, their American and Asian counterparts have mostly described the foliages as having a reddish hint to them. The difference is still visible today, and botanists set out to investigate precisely why that is so... |
16 August 2009
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The goal of creating artificial photosynthesis systems (as in man-made leaves) has been around ever since solar energy started being looked at as a potent alternative to burning fossil fuels. Miniature forests at the nanoscale have been envisioned and theorized, but researchers at the Leiden University have now broug... |
1 July 2009
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Photosynthesis is, undoubtedly, the most important process on Earth, and is also the main source of oxygen for animals and humans. It occurs when the vegetation harvests carbon dioxide and sunlight from the atmosphere, and releases oxygen back, while at the same time generating energy for itself. Directly responsible... |
12 May 2009
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The process of photosynthesis is perhaps the most important one on Earth, as it is the source of our oxygen, and also a huge storage facility for atmospheric carbon dioxide, of which we pump copious amounts in the atmosphere. But one of the bases for this process is the vegetation's ability to capture and conver... |
5 May 2009
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People all over the world mourn over the ice loss of the northern planetary pole. But recent research indicated that this might actually be a good thing in some ways, since it leaves more room for phytoplankton to expand. This, in turn, produces chlorophyll, which helps assimilate sun energy and absorbs atmospheric C... |
12 September 2008
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We live in a green world, but the ancient Earth could have been wrapped in a purple mantle. The eldest microbes might have employed another molecule than chlorophyll to get advantage of the Sun's energy. Chlorophyll absorbs mainly blue and red wavelengths of the sunlight and as it reflects green ones, the plants... |
11 April 2007
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