Algae

The environment is unkempt.

Algae has taken over some of the pipelines and all.

And so people take these products from the unregistered facilities and they face the risk of typhoid and all the other communicable diseases.

the authority says non-compliant businesses risk fines of up to 30 000 cities

And I kept learning more so about just the history of the Caribbean coral reefs, where, where we're focused in.

And with corals, you'd see basically how there's a, a constant battle between algae.

Algae's natural, but, uh, when there's so much of it, and it's proliferating everywhere, it almost starts to choke out the coral over time.

And also, when corals reproduce and that their, their little baby corals are looking for a place to grow on the reef, that algae can quickly smother that coral and outgrow it.

So I did some work on some Caribbean islands in Saint Croix, Curaçao, and then I ended up all the way up in, uh, Maine with the Smithsonian Institution, doing some, just categorizing biomass in Goldsboro Bay, Maine.

They assimilate air, water, and some earthy matter, just as do ordinary plants.

Algae, or seaweeds, live in water, and live the same kind of life as do ordinary plants.

Fungi, whatever medium they inhabit, live as animals do, upon organic matter, upon what other plants have assimilated, or upon the products of their decay.

True as these general distinctions are, it is no less true that these orders run together in their lowest forms, and that algae and fungi may be traced down into forms so low and simple that no clear line can be drawn between them, and even into forms of which it is uncertain whether they should be called plants or animals.

One of these threads reaches and fertilizes a cell at the apex of the nucleus or solid body of the sporocarp.

This subsequently germinates and forms a new individual.

Algae or seaweeds.

The proper seaweeds may be studied by the aid of Professor Farlow's Marine Algae of New England, the freshwater species by Professor H. C. Wood's Freshwater Algae of North America, a larger and less accessible volume.

Then, through broken panes in the ceiling, dawn lights streaked down, fracturing across the pool.

Algae recoiled, as if photosensitive, and the tide of black water began to rush outward, draining through the network of lower tunnels.

Above, distant sirens wailed as rescue teams or police, drawn by the emergency signal, began pouring toward the canal.

Silence returned, broken only by the ragged, mutual breathing of what humans still remained above the waterline.

And the funny thing is the reason why fish has even omega-3 fatty acids is because it's eating algae.

It's the main reason.

Algae has the precursor or the omega-3 fatty acids and the fish is eating the algae.

That's why fish contains omega-3 fatty acids.

A lot of people don't even know that.

Primitive algae had existed in the seas since the Cambrian, but it was nothing to write home about.

That is, until the Ordovician kicked things up a notch.

Algae evolved and spread onto dry land for the very first time as moss.

Well, sort of dry land.

These early migrators lacked roots and other specialized parts needed to retain water without help, so they dwelled on the edges of water bodies where it was damp.

And also, to be clear, even though they do mainly eat small animals and would be considered carnivores, they will eat berries and seaweed, which is not a plant, by the way.

Seaweed's a type of algae.

Algae.

Algae.

Yeah.

Algae's not a plant? I learned that in botany class.

Algae's not a plant? Nope.

Nope.

We need to eat the light food.

Our mitochondria release, whatever that mitochondria of that plant did, especially algae, for goodness sake.

Algae was the, algae 2.5 billion years ago started producing oxygen.

Otherwise we were just fermenters on this planet, right? Nothing was growing.

So until that mitochondria came into play, everybody has a mitochondria.