A long-term $60 million action plan to save Lake Burley Griffin has been handed to the ACT government but it comes with a warning that the iconic waterway would never be a pristine lake.

Blue green algae (BGA) possess immense morphological and metabolic diversity and can be used in economic developmentand environment management like wastewater treatment, land reclamation, production of fine chemicals, atmospheric fixation ofnitrogen, production of methane fuel, conversion of solar energy, therapeutic functions and so on. This review presents applicationsof BGA in agriculture, food and industry.

Great Lakes shorelines are becoming clogged by algae blooms fed by agricultural run-off, while invasive mussels decimate the food chain in deeper waters, an environmental group said on Tuesday.

A field experiment was conducted at the research farm of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi during 3 wet and dry seasons of 2003-06 in rice-wheat cropping system. In this experiment different treatments comprising organic amendments such as blue green algae, vermicompost and farm yard manure applied alone or in combination were tested in organic crop production.

Tiny algae and a whale native to the Pacific have crossed a thawing Arctic Ocean in what may portend a marine invasion threatening Atlantic fish stocks, scientists said on Sunday.

The Pacific algae, absent from the North Atlantic for 800,000 years according to fossil records, apparently returned after climate change thawed sea ice and currents carried the microscopic plants across the Arctic Oc

The green slime that covers ponds is an efficient factory for turning sunlight into fuel, but growing it on an industrial scale will take ingenuity.

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Experts Put On Fast Track Way To Make Fossil Fuel
Alicante (Spain): In a forest of tubes eight metres high in eastern Spain scientists hope they have foundthefuelof tomorrow:bio-oil produced with algae mixed with carbon dioxide from a factory.

Almost 400 of the green tubes, filledwith millionsof microscopic algae, cover a plain near the city of Alicante, next to a cement works from which t

Algae may soon become a source of green fuel for both developed and developing countries.

A field experiment was conducted on rice seed production in rice-wheat cropping system to find out the effect of application of biofertilizers and urea on the grain yield and quality attributes of rice varieties at the research farm of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India during 2 wet seasons of 2006-08.

Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has prepared a plan to install 17 Floating Solar Powered High Flow Circulators/Solar Bees and 10 Portable Wastewater Treatment Plants worth of Rs 400 million at Rawal Lake to clean contaminations from its water, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday.

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