Chen Xinbao and Zhang Yanhui are fishermen living in Qingdao, a city in East China's Shandong province. They were hired by the local government to clean enteromorpha two years ago. Enteromorpha is ...

The seaweed, Enteromorpha, reproduces by releasing motile zoospores which settle on surfaces and develop into new plants. Above, zoospores (red) attach to a biofilm of bacteria in response to signal ...

Massive, recording-breaking blooms of the algae Enteromorpha prolifera have been washing up on China's beaches in Shandong province, near Qingdao. The bloom is the size of Connecticut and officials ...

For years, China has talked about promoting “green growth.” But this probably isn’t what they had in mind. For the seventh year in a row, monstrous quantities of green algae known as enteromorpha ...

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For years, China has talked about promoting “green growth.” But this probably isn’t what they had in mind. For the seventh year in a row, monstrous quantities of green algae known as enteromorpha ...