Also known as brown algae, Paeophyta (or Phaeophyta) are photosynthetic protists, belonging to the Chromista Kingdom (i.e., "with color"), a kingdom closely related neither to plants nor to other algae. This kingdom includes microscopic life forms such...

Members of a group of living organisms that, like true plants, possess CHLOROPHYLL but which do not have recognisable leaves, stems or roots. The group includes DIATOMS, DINOFLAGELLATES and...

The Phaeophyceae or brown algae, (singular: alga) is a large group of mostly marine multicellular algae, including many seaweeds of colder Northern Hemisphere waters. They play an important role in marine environments both as food, and for the habitats...

The real outdoor painting season doesn't start for another month, but already the questions are rolling in: 1. My house is peeling like crazy. How can I stop it? 1A. I paid $5,000 to have my house painted last summer. Now it...

NAHANT - A dried clamshell. Rotten eggs. Like somebody died here. The descriptions that beachgoers use to convey the stench on stretches of beach in Lynn and Nahant are vividly varied, always pungent. The villains: gelatinous brown algae that have washed ashore...

A burst of brown algae bloomed over portions of the Elizabeth and Lafayette rivers in the Hampton Roads region _ a so-called "mahogany tide" that can have lethal consequences for fish and shellfish.Algal blooms have become common in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the result of...