The algae was so dense that it made swimming quite challenging.

We walked through thick bushes.

Here's some algae in the foreground ...

It was astonishing. They were also producing mangroves in a plantation.

Lichens arose as a co op. Fungi married algae ...

The presence of the algae in regional waters is nothing new.

The first is that we have fossils of algae from 3.5 billion years ago.

Pity for the barangays who were affected, fishermen who cannot go out to go fishing, dead mangrove critters.

Soma used to be famous for seaweed cultivation, but it seemed too early to resume the business.

Sadly, it didn't go out into the open but flew into the dense mangroves to hide.

We call it OMEGA, which is an acronym for Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae.

Phytoplankton, the concentration of which was 1.127 g L in 1985, is represented by numerous species of algae.

The land is neglected, overgrown with wormwood or given to the peasants, and where eight million bushels used to be produced they now only produce eight hundred thousand. The wealth of the nation has decreased.

It will take years for the mangroves to recover, but clean up will need to be done diligently or the mangroves will perish ( .

Guests at one upscale hotel on the south east coast of the island complained that the smell from such large quantities of the algae was nauseating.

Synthetic Genomics has a 600 million agreement with ExxonMobil to obtain fuel from algae.

However, mass algae outbreaks have been reported in several rivers in 2012, which many believe somehow correlate to the construction.

Li Yuanchao, another rising star in Hu s faction, neglected environmental issues in Jiangsu, the rich province he has run since 2000. Earlier this year, huge, foul smelling blooms of blue algae contaminated drinking water from Jiangsu s Jewel, Lake Tai.

Earlier this year, huge, foul smelling blooms of blue algae contaminated drinking water from Jiangsu s Jewel, Lake Tai.

The most exciting prospect held out by Venter, however, is a form of algae that can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use it to create diesel fuel or gasoline.

Many attribute the recent phenomenon to the overly present salmon industry, which was affected by an algal bloom that killed more than 24 million salmon, thousands of tonnes of which ended up in the sea.

In plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, photosystem II uses light energy to remove electrons from water, releasing oxygen as a waste product.

Seaweed farming is an important part of the economy, with two major species Eucheuma alcarezii and Eucheuma spinosium introduced to the local lagoons from the Philippines in 1977.

Various figures portray Mumbai s per capita open space ratio as ranking among the lowest of all the world s major metropolitan areas, and especially more so if the national park and mangrove creeks are not included as open spaces, says naturalist and nature writer Sunjoy Monga.

As warned by environmental groups, it has had a detrimental effect on the environment the COD index (Chemical Oxygen Demand) has increased by 9 percent and the algae level rose 1.9 percent.

Interestingly, four years ago in September 2011, when the region also experienced an influx of sargassum, an octogenarian entrepreneur from Barbados found a way to turn the sargassum problem into profit.

The marine phenomenon known as a red tide, an excessive proliferation of algae that causes an elevated concentration of toxins, has been affecting the work of fishermen on the southern Chilean island of Chiloé for some months now.

Nonetheless, consumer tastes and agricultural economics are slow to embrace algae based oils, so it will likely take years for these oils to replace more than a few drops in the flood of palm oil.

Floods, meanwhile, wash sewage and fertilizer into water supplies, triggering expansive blooms of harmful algae that are either directly toxic to humans, or contaminate the fish and shellfish that humans consume.