Author: Ria Chhabra

If you visit Lake Texcoco in Mexico or Lake Kosorum in west-central Africa, you might see a layer of blue-green algae at the surface of the water (AlFadhy et al. 2022). This cyanobacteria consists of two species, Arthrospira maxima and Arthrospira platensis, that thrive in high alkaline, freshwater and sunny environments (Karkos et al. 2010).…