{"id":27844,"date":"2024-11-09T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T02:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27844"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:19:12","slug":"cyanobacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/cyanobacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyanobacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Cyanobacteria:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are also called\u00a0<strong>blue-green algae<\/strong>, microscopic organisms found\u00a0<strong>naturally in all types of water.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These single-celled organisms live in fresh, brackish (combined salt and fresh water), and marine water.<\/li>\n<li>These organisms use sunlight to\u00a0<strong>make their own food.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In warm, nutrient-rich (high in phosphorus and nitrogen) environments, cyanobacteria can multiply quickly, creating blooms that spread across the water\u2019s surface.<\/li>\n<li>Cyanobacteria blooms can\u00a0<strong>form in warm, slow-moving waters<\/strong>\u00a0that are rich in nutrients from sources such as fertilizer runoff or septic tank overflows.<\/li>\n<li>It needs nutrients to survive. The blooms can form at any time, but most often form in late summer or early fall.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Chonkus<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was discovered in the shallow sunlit waters off the coast of\u00a0<strong>Italy\u2019s Vulcano Island<\/strong>, where volcanic gas-rich groundwater seeps into the sea.<\/li>\n<li>It has the\u00a0<strong>capacity to absorb a lot more carbon<\/strong>\u00a0than the average cyanobacteria floating in the ocean.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an Algae?<\/h3>\n<p>Algae are a diverse group of aquatic organisms that have the ability to conduct photosynthesis. Certain algae are familiar to most people; for instance, seaweeds (such as kelp or phytoplankton), pond scum or the algal blooms in lakes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/chonkus-climate-change-cyanobacteria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0Meet Chonkus, the mutant cyanobacteria that could help sink climate change<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyanobacteria are also called blue-green algae, microscopic organisms found naturally in all types of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}