Earth Day is always April 22 in the United States and celebrates the natural world around us and how to keep it healthy.

Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

Photosynthesis: A Chemical and Biological ... Chlorophyll provides the green color most plants are known for while absorbing light energy from the Sun. When the photons from that energy interact ...

Earth's oceans could one day turn purple. Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a ...

The thylakoids contain the light-harvesting complex, including pigments such as chlorophyll, as well as the electron transport chains used in photosynthesis (Figure 2). Plant cell walls are ...

It’s hard to picture now, but Earth’s deep blue oceans were once green. According to a new study by Japanese researchers, ...

Nitrates are natural fertilizers. As the rain comes down in a thunderstorm, it carries those nitrates down to the ground. This fertilizes the grass, and it allows things to green up a little bit more.

“Microplastics are hindering photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert energy from ... not while fossil fuels continue to drown our green planet in carbon it cannot metabolise.

Eventually, early photosynthesis led to the “great ... Chlorophyll gives plants their green colour. Blue-green algae are peculiar because they carry the common chlorophyll pigment, but also ...