Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Cyanobacteria are present in the environment in an extensively far-reaching state. They pose trouble in the aquatic system when they accumulate in a dense outgrowth in the form of blooms. They also might generate potential secondary metabolites known as cyanotoxins that might harm other plants, animals as well as humans. […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta If we notice the beautiful colour gradients across the image above, we would find bright green along with bluer areas. These areas altogether presented a very interesting finding detected initially by satellite images in late 2020. Colourful signatures of plankton blooms in Grande Bay, off of Argentina’s Santa Cruz province […]
–Shrayana Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata. The earlier belief that phytoplankton in the artic marines are unable to grow until the snow and ice cover melts due to insufficient transmission of sunlight is now being challenged by a possible theory that suggests that marine algae may be capable of growing under extremely low irradiance also highlighting […]
