Biologists searched for ice algae, which look like dirt and live on the underside of the ice and in the channels of trapped brine left after newly formed sea ice expels salt. In a few weeks ...

Algae that tinge snow red are to blame for about a sixth of the snowmelt at an Alaskan ice field Microbes are pushing glacial snow into the red. An alga species that grows on glaciers gives the ...

Or have you noticed how the walls of a fish tank sometimes turn green and slimy? These are all examples of algae—but there is a lot more to the algae story! On the right side of the cover, it is ...

As we near the end of the ice season, Steinman said algal blooms could start to form earlier than usual in May or June. “When you are on the Lake Michigan beaches, you don’t see the big blooms ...

ICE is a tool for climate scientists studying snow algae, black carbon, and other surface snow phenomena to collect snow and ice samples quickly over a wide area and in dangerous environments such as ...