Mysterious Microbes Turning Polar Ice Pink, Speeding Up Melt. Thriving communities of red algae are doing something nefarious to the world's ice sheets: melting them more quickly.

They found 6 types of algae living at 40 red-snow sites in Norway, Sweden, ... Black and Bloom is the first effort to systematically explore algae’s role in darkening ice sheets.

The red algae lies embedded in layers of stromatolites - sheet-like sedimentary rocks. Researchers were able to look inside the algae with the help of X-ray tomographic microscopy.

Researchers are fanning out across the Greenland ice sheet this month to explore a crucial, but overlooked, influence on its future: red, green and brown-coloured algal blooms. These darken the ...

Greenland's vast ice sheet is being turned black by algae, part of a vicious cycle making it melt faster. ... The ones in the snow can be green, yellow, or red," Prof. Liane G. Benning told Insider.

New Red Algae Are Threatening Hawaii’s Coral Reefs, ... Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patterns of air bubbles in sheets of ice. Related Content.

Corallines are red algae that have hard shells of calcium carbonate around every cell, ... “We have some land-based archives, for example, ice cores from glaciers and ice sheets.

The apparent red alga was found embedded in fossilized sheets of cyanobacteria, widely believed to be the first oxygen-producing life-forms to have arisen and a precursor all to algae and plants.

Toxic algae blooms known as red tide have been detected in multiple sections of the Texas Gulf Coast including the upper coast around Galveston Bay and the lower Laguna Madre in the Rio Grande ...

Algae that give snow a red tint are making glacial snow in Alaska melt faster. ... Algae grew on more than a third of the sheet. Within that 700-square-kilometer area, ...

While toxic red tide algae continues to strengthen in the open waters of Tampa Bay, there’s another potentially harmful algal bloom that is catching the attention of residents closer to shore.