Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

"No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae" and this "engaging . . .deeply informative" book gives algae its due. —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times–bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner The Sixth Extinction

Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist. Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmosphere, abundant oceans, and coral reefs. Crude oil is made of dead algae, ...