But for a new crop of farmers growing sugar kelp in the waters of the Long Island Sound, planting season is just wrapping up and the seeds are germinating under the surface. By mid-spring ...

Arctic kelp absorbs metals from melting glaciers, increasing mercury levels by 72%. This could harm marine life and fisheries ...

Divers recently sought evidence of the Palisades fire's underwater toll, particularly its effect on a vital anchor of the ...

Chef Andrew Wilkinson of North Coast Seafoods hands out samples of kelp "meatballs" at an Introduction to Global Public Health class. (Photos by Lee Pellegrini) A new nutritious, sustainable, ...

The four main botanicals in gin are traditionally juniper berries, coriander seeds, angelica root and orris ... distinctive flavor is the use of sugar kelp, a type of seaweed planted in Long ...

These stones, coated in kelp spores, then seed an underwater forest which only takes a few months to grow, quickly working to sequester carbon on the seabed. Kelp is also a threatened species ...

The divers were with Kelp Ark, a San Pedro-based nonprofit seed bank that preserves and stores genetic material from West Coast kelp species. The Feb. 10 dive was their second since fire and ...