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 ...

Marimo has emerged from stealth with $5 million in seed funding. The startup has launched an open-source Python notebook designed to provide developers with a tool that is reproducible and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have solved a long-running mystery surrounding marimo, the fuzzy balls of green algae that Japan considers a national treasure. Though marimo are known for nestling adorably at the ...

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 ...

TAKAYAMA, Gifu Prefecture--Officials are trying to give the struggling area here a boost through sales of a more durable “marimo” moss ball that forms in hot spring water used to cultivate ...

Climate change could overexpose rare underwater "marimo" algae balls to sunlight, killing them off according to a new study at the University of Tokyo. Marimo are living fluffy balls of green algae.