Local seaweed a bug blaster
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CHEMICALS in a Victorian seaweed could shut down bacteria that cause golden staph and cholera. The chemicals in seaweed Delisea pulchra, known as furanones, do not kill the bacteria but shut off the ability for the bacteria to send signals to each other.
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By JULIE YOUNG  Antonia FD Vassar munched on a crisp sugar-snap pea and surveyed her ripening front yard.  Little stone walkways wind around garden beds of varying shapes and sizes. An early morning sun drenches lettuces, peas, kale, strawberries, carrots and beets.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 10--BRADENTON BEACH -- The knee-deep stacks of rotting algae lining the beaches of Sarasota County have been sending the tourists north to Manatee County.
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First, the state doused coastal communities with a pesticide aimed at a crop-eating moth that could cause billions of dollars in damage.
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Training her binoculars on a dark patch of floating seaweed, Gena Bentall gasped. After searching for sea otters all day, the research biologist had spotted one: a mother with a pup on her belly, but the otter's face was mauled and dripping blood and a male was hot on her tail.
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For the second time in three years, a hypoxic "dead zone" has formed off the central Oregon Coast. It's killing fish, crabs and other marine life and leading researchers to believe that a fundamental change may be taking place in ocean conditions in the northern Pacific Ocean.
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Some coral reefs are proving surprisingly resilient to global warming because of heat-tolerant algae that live with them.
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Stari Grad bay on the island of Hvar is one of the most charming resorts in Croatia. But beneath the quiet surface of the southern Adriatic an aggressive tropical algae is threatening the sea's eco-system.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - It's best not to get between a predator and its prey - especially when they're in the passenger seat of your golf cart. Water plant worker Mitch Walter would offer that bit of advice and bears the scratches of one who speaks from experience.
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A voracious Australian moth is threatening to infest one of the nationâs most important agricultural regions.
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Researchers at the University of South Florida have been working on a biological sensor that would test waters off Florida for red tide, hoping to eventually track the harmful algae blooms.
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SEATTLE - A toxic algae bloom 30 miles wide has been detected 15 miles off the northwest coast of Washington state, the largest and most potentially lethal yet found by scientists in the region.
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By Gabriel Tynes, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Sep.
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An unusually large toxic bloom of algae, which could poison humans and taint shellfish, has been detected in the ocean off the northwest coast of Washington state, oceanographers said on Wednesday.
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By Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times  Sep. 17--THE FALL COASTAL RAZOR CLAM season looms on the horizon, and  diggers are hopeful it will be just as productive as this past spring.
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The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia announced yesterday that