A new modeling tool helps kelp farmers uncover major cost-saving strategies by analyzing real-world conditions and farm designs. Farming kelp for use in foods, beauty items, fertilizer additives and ...

Off the coast of Catalina Island near Los Angeles, a prototype of a new “kelp elevator”–a long tube with seaweed growing on it that can be moved up and down in the water to access sunlight and ...

Farming kelp to sell as food, beauty products, fertilizer additives and other goods is a growing industry in Maine, but also ...

Employees check a line ribbon kelp, or Alaria marginata, in March at Seagrove Kelp’s Doyle Bay Farm, six miles outside of Craig, Alaska. State regulations require kelp farmers to gather seed from at ...

Kelp can help to fortify the environment amid warming temperatures. Underwater forests could be the answer to helping to mitigate the environment from the impacts of climate change, experts told ABC ...

Many of us think of seaweed as a nuisance -- the slimy, sometimes smelly stuff that clogs fishermen's nets, gets tangled in our ankles in the ocean, and washes up unwanted on the beach. Even its name ...

The water-filtering abilities of farmed kelp could help reduce marine pollution in coastal areas, according to a new study. The paper analyzed carbon and nitrogen levels at two mixed-species kelp ...

Cruising by on a boat, it’s easy to miss Jake Patryn’s farm, which looks like nothing more than an unassuming row of red and white buoys floating just off the coast of Machias, Maine. The crop he and ...

Humboldt State University is expanding and diversifying its seaweed research farm in Humboldt Bay to include bull kelp this summer. With the help of HSU students, researchers aim to inform future ...

The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers received a grant of $75,000 from The Nature Conservancy to help expand their kelp farm and hatchery in Shinnecock Bay on eastern Long Island. As the first Indigenous-owned ...

The growing season for kelp is wintertime and into spring. So last autumn, Caspard and Paul Joyce, Bowdoin's marine operations manager, dropped two anchors attached to thirty-foot ropes about 1,250 or ...