An international team of scientists (including experts from Harvard University) have described a carbon dioxide-hungry algae ...

Chonkus was first collected in seawater samples taken from shallow volcanic seeps near the island of Vulcano. Since these ...

Billions of years ago, Earth was home to extreme environments, including intense UV radiation, frequent volcanic eruptions, and very high concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Yet, under ...

Scientists have discovered Chonkus, a cyanobacteria strain that grows rapidly in CO2-rich water, offering potential climate solutions.

Schubert, a microbiologist who was interested in building tools for directed evolution of bacteria and their genomes, ...

Harvard Scientists Discover ‘Chonkus,’ Algae That Sinks Carbon for a Greener Planet Scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute ...

New novel algae strain, nicknamed 'Chonkus' by scientists, could help to sequester carbon due to unique adaptations ...

A novel strain of cyanobacteria isolated from volcanic ocean vents that grows rapidly in the presence of carbon dioxide and ...

And the fact that cyanobacteria directly harvest carbon ... harnessing billions of years of evolution is a significant leg up in humanity’s urgent need to mitigate and reverse climate change ...

A unique strain of cyanobacteria, or algae, isolated from volcanic ocean vents has been found by an international team of ...

exploring the eventual evolution of Homo sapiens with species of the fungi and protista kingdoms of life. "A lichen exists as a symbiotic association between a fungus and an alga or cyanobacteria.