Winter brought a colder and icier season to the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, which saw a near-complete ice cover in ...

The diatoms in diatomaceous earth are largely made up of a chemical compound called silica. Silica is found in nature as a component of everything from sand and rocks to plants and humans.

This may be only the tip of the iceberg of algal abilities, however. “More than 60 percent of the genes in the diatom genome basically have no reference whatsoever with any other gene in any other ...

DE is a natural ingredient containing “diatoms” (the finely ground fossils of tiny aquatic organisms.) that can kill insects in some seed-starting mixes. When insects go into the soil with DE, this ...