A group of scientists has discovered a species of algae that is capable of being selectively bred and could help create a renewable alternative to fossil fuels. Algae has already been used to produce ...

A Seattle bio-technology company has new investors and thinks it has a leg up on a process to create fuel out of simple, blue-green algae. For years, corn and soy have been used to blend bio-fuels for ...

From the air you breathe to the seafood you eat, marine algae have some involvement—they consume carbon dioxide and produce oxygen through photosynthesis and feed fish and shellfish. One day, marine ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – As a clean energy alternative, NASA invented an algae photo-bioreactor that grows algae in municipal wastewater to produce biofuel and a variety of other products. The NASA ...

OTTOBRUN, Germany (Reuters) - As airlines struggle to find cleaner ways to power jets and with an industry-wide meeting on CO2 emissions just months away, scientists are busy growing algae in vast ...

Mazda believes the road to carbon-neutral motoring doesn’t have to mean the end of the internal-combustion engine. Instead, the company is continuing work on algae-derived fuels, it says, that could ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Algae-to-energy developer OriginOil has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy to cooperate in research, the company said on Tuesday. Los Angeles-based ...