"Microorganisms"

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20 November 2025

RZESZOW, POLAND – NOVEMBER 20: A cluster of honey fungus mushrooms (Armillaria species) grows at the base of a tree in Rzeszow, Poland, on November 20, 2025.

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22 August 2025

Green algae cover the lake at Daecheong Lake in Daejeon, South Korea, on August 23, 2025. Green algae blooms occur when nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus from land are washed into water bodies by rain, and water temperatures rise, creating ideal conditions for harmful cyanobacteria to thrive. Cyanobacteria, a type of phytoplankton, are essential components of aquatic ecosystems. However, when they proliferate excessively, they can produce foul odors, degrade water quality, and even cause fish deaths. This year, green algae in Daecheong Lake begin spreading in the latter part of last month.

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22 August 2025

Green algae cover the lake at Daecheong Lake in Daejeon, South Korea, on August 23, 2025. Green algae blooms occur when nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus from land are washed into water bodies by rain, and water temperatures rise, creating ideal conditions for harmful cyanobacteria to thrive. Cyanobacteria, a type of phytoplankton, are essential components of aquatic ecosystems. However, when they proliferate excessively, they can produce foul odors, degrade water quality, and even cause fish deaths. This year, green algae in Daecheong Lake begin spreading in the latter part of last month.

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22 August 2025

Green algae cover the lake at Daecheong Lake in Daejeon, South Korea, on August 23, 2025. Green algae blooms occur when nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus from land are washed into water bodies by rain, and water temperatures rise, creating ideal conditions for harmful cyanobacteria to thrive. Cyanobacteria, a type of phytoplankton, are essential components of aquatic ecosystems. However, when they proliferate excessively, they can produce foul odors, degrade water quality, and even cause fish deaths. This year, green algae in Daecheong Lake begin spreading in the latter part of last month.

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22 August 2025

Green algae cover the lake at Daecheong Lake in Daejeon, South Korea, on August 23, 2025. Green algae blooms occur when nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus from land are washed into water bodies by rain, and water temperatures rise, creating ideal conditions for harmful cyanobacteria to thrive. Cyanobacteria, a type of phytoplankton, are essential components of aquatic ecosystems. However, when they proliferate excessively, they can produce foul odors, degrade water quality, and even cause fish deaths. This year, green algae in Daecheong Lake begin spreading in the latter part of last month.

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22 August 2025

Green algae cover the lake at Daecheong Lake in Daejeon, South Korea, on August 23, 2025. Green algae blooms occur when nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus from land are washed into water bodies by rain, and water temperatures rise, creating ideal conditions for harmful cyanobacteria to thrive. Cyanobacteria, a type of phytoplankton, are essential components of aquatic ecosystems. However, when they proliferate excessively, they can produce foul odors, degrade water quality, and even cause fish deaths. This year, green algae in Daecheong Lake begin spreading in the latter part of last month.

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18 June 2025

A salesman at a showroom in Lethpora, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India, sells Shilajit to customers on June 17, 2025. Business in Kashmir is severely impacted following an attack on tourists in Pahalgam on April 22. Shilajit is a natural substance found mainly in the Himalayas, formed for centuries by the gradual decomposition of certain plants by the action of microorganisms. It is a potent and very safe dietary supplement, restoring the energetic balance and potentially able to prevent several diseases.

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18 June 2025

A salesman at a showroom in Lethpora, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India, sells Shilajit to customers on June 17, 2025. Business in Kashmir is severely impacted following an attack on tourists in Pahalgam on April 22. Shilajit is a natural substance found mainly in the Himalayas, formed for centuries by the gradual decomposition of certain plants by the action of microorganisms. It is a potent and very safe dietary supplement, restoring the energetic balance and potentially able to prevent several diseases.

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18 June 2025

A salesman at a showroom in Lethpora, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India, shows the quality of Shilajit to customers on June 17, 2025. Business in Kashmir is severely impacted following an attack on tourists in Pahalgam on April 22. Shilajit is a natural substance found mainly in the Himalayas, formed over centuries by the gradual decomposition of certain plants by the action of microorganisms. It is a potent and very safe dietary supplement, restoring the energetic balance and potentially able to prevent several diseases.

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3 March 2024

College students are taking part in a microbiology test competition in Huai'an, China, on March 2, 2024.

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15 August 2023

Most of Pyrrhocoridae is a family of insects that are red-colored and are known as red bugs or called cotton stainers because their feeding activities leave an indelible yellow-brownish stain on cotton crops. Like other true bugs, cotton stainers suck fluids from their host plants. The only part of the cotton plant affected by this pest is the flower and the seed capsule or boll. As this develops, the insect thrusts its rostrum between the carpels and sucks fluids from the still-soft seeds inside. Micro-organisms are admitted in the process and may make the boll contents rot or the lint become discolored. Meanwhile, the seeds wither, the fibers may fail to expand and the boll may abort. When the seeds of a host plant ripen and it becomes unsuitable, the adult insects migrate to new host plants of the same or different species. While away from their hosts, they feed on the nectar and fruit of non-host plants and can survive for several days without food. A nymph of Pyrrhocoridae feeds fruit with a saliva-like substance, known as proboscis (rostrum), a long tube-like mouth part by which hemipterans feed, with the help of it the fruit is hanging on Its mouth at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 15/08/2023.

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15 August 2023

Most of Pyrrhocoridae is a family of insects that are red-colored and are known as red bugs or called cotton stainers because their feeding activities leave an indelible yellow-brownish stain on cotton crops. Like other true bugs, cotton stainers suck fluids from their host plants. The only part of the cotton plant affected by this pest is the flower and the seed capsule or boll. As this develops, the insect thrusts its rostrum between the carpels and sucks fluids from the still-soft seeds inside. Micro-organisms are admitted in the process and may make the boll contents rot or the lint become discolored. Meanwhile, the seeds wither, the fibers may fail to expand and the boll may abort. When the seeds of a host plant ripen and it becomes unsuitable, the adult insects migrate to new host plants of the same or different species. While away from their hosts, they feed on the nectar and fruit of non-host plants and can survive for several days without food. A nymph of Pyrrhocoridae feeds fruit with a saliva-like substance, known as proboscis (rostrum), a long tube-like mouth part by which hemipterans feed, with the help of it the fruit is hanging on Its mouth at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 15/08/2023.

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7 June 2021

The photo shows mucilage covers surface of the Marmara Sea, coast of Istanbul, Turkey on June 7, 2021.The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization announced that the largest sea cleaning campaign will be launched to eliminate mucilage(sea snot) . Mucilage, which was observed intensively on the water in the Sea of Marmara in 2007, is due to the excessive increase in the sea of single-celled plant microorganisms called "phytoplankton". In the Marmara Sea these single-celled microorganisms also multiply by taking advantage of the marine pollution caused by domestic and factory wastes and the changing water temperature level due to global climate change.

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7 June 2021

The photo shows mucilage covers surface of the Marmara Sea, coast of Istanbul, Turkey on June 7, 2021.The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization announced that the largest sea cleaning campaign will be launched to eliminate mucilage(sea snot) . Mucilage, which was observed intensively on the water in the Sea of Marmara in 2007, is due to the excessive increase in the sea of single-celled plant microorganisms called "phytoplankton". In the Marmara Sea these single-celled microorganisms also multiply by taking advantage of the marine pollution caused by domestic and factory wastes and the changing water temperature level due to global climate change.

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7 June 2021

The photo shows mucilage covers surface of the Marmara Sea, coast of Istanbul, Turkey on June 7, 2021.The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization announced that the largest sea cleaning campaign will be launched to eliminate mucilage(sea snot) . Mucilage, which was observed intensively on the water in the Sea of Marmara in 2007, is due to the excessive increase in the sea of single-celled plant microorganisms called "phytoplankton". In the Marmara Sea these single-celled microorganisms also multiply by taking advantage of the marine pollution caused by domestic and factory wastes and the changing water temperature level due to global climate change.

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7 June 2021

The photo shows mucilage covers surface of the Marmara Sea, coast of Istanbul, Turkey on June 7, 2021.The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization announced that the largest sea cleaning campaign will be launched to eliminate mucilage(sea snot) . Mucilage, which was observed intensively on the water in the Sea of Marmara in 2007, is due to the excessive increase in the sea of single-celled plant microorganisms called "phytoplankton". In the Marmara Sea these single-celled microorganisms also multiply by taking advantage of the marine pollution caused by domestic and factory wastes and the changing water temperature level due to global climate change.

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