algae

REPORTER: Algae has been spotted inside the newly-renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Also, algae can't be that hard to get rid of.

Those are fish that are particularly good at consuming algae blooms and other pests.

Phytoplankton, trillions and trillions of single-celled algae and bacteria make up the foundation of the ocean's ecosystem, and they're consumed by bigger plankton, who are consumer by other species.

You couldn't even protect the reflecting pool from algae.

And when this water seeps into the rocks and reaches the algae, they essentially wake up and start photosynthesizing — producing food and fixing carbon in one of Earth’s least friendly environments.

I’ve made up a batch of agar, which is a translucent gel made from the cell walls of algae.

The seafloor at this depth is akin to the Amazon rainforest, and is often covered with coral reefs, algae, and other sea plants that are home to a plethora of sea animals.

Like, in the 1970s, Filipino-American biologist Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann and her husband, the Hungarian-American biologist Imre Friedmann were amazed to find blue-green algae not only living in Antarctica, but living inside gaps in rocks.