Hokkaido’s Lake Akan has been declared a national park in order to safeguard the lake's marimo colony. The marimo themselves are bigger than basketballs and hundreds of years old. More than ...

Lake Akan is ideal for creating marimo because it has an unusual shallow bowl shape that allows gentle underwater currents to roll the marimo across the sandy surface of the lake bed, thereby ...

Marimo, more commonly known as moss balls ... "They need to be swirled around in the bowl they are in to mimic that ...

Massive 'marimo' algae balls at risk from deadly winter sunburn Reduced lake-ice cover due to climate change may further decline of endangered species Date: December 23, 2022 Source: University of ...

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Marimo are a unique growth form of lake algae and used to be found in cold lakes in Japan and Northern Europe. However, the only place where specimens larger than 20 cm in diameter can now be ...

A group of Japanese researchers have discovered how to estimate the age of marimo. They also successfully illuminated a mechanism that is vital for the algae balls’ growth. These findings will ...

KUSHIRO, Hokkaido—“Marimo” moss balls, the fuzzy green spheres that have brought fame to Lake Akanko here, are shrinking because of global warming, a research group found. The maximum ...