“The seaweed on these bare rocks is very slippery,” says Jayson Byles, as he balances on boulders at Kingsbarns Beach near Fife, in eastern Scotland. The view is pleasant now that the rain has ...

“In Covid we saw a decline in fake meats, so only the good ones have survived, and we’re going to see more mushroom or seaweed-based products. Dietary needs will also be more developed.

Researchers in Sweden have heard your complaints about the fishy taste of dried seaweed products, and they believe they have the answer. The key is fermentation, which they said lowers the fishy ...

The Seaweed Research Group at the University of Gothenburg is interested in how seaweeds interact with their environment, how they respond to natural and human-induced environmental changes, and how ...

One of Henry’s undergraduates, Brittney McKenzie, commuted to the lab every day past resort beaches covered in brown mounds of invasive sargassum seaweed. “Why don’t we look at sargassum?” ...

From Pacific saury to seaweed to shrimp, ocean warming stemming from climate change is having an adverse effect on marine species all over the world. The impact in waters around Japan is showing ...

The culprit? Sargassum seaweed. Some farmers in Trinidad and Tobago have reimagined the smelly, yellowish-brown macroalgae that fouls the shores of their country’s beaches, converting it to compost to ...

Seaweed farming is a rapidly expanding global industry. As a food resource, it has high nutritional value and doesn't need fertilizers to grow. Seaweed provides valuable habitats for marine life ...

Flashes of iridescent blue from the tiny clustered bubbles of oxygen that collect on the seaweed fronds sometimes outshine those sombre colours. But its beauty is just the start. Amid the flotsam and ...