Among the many kelp benefits (tasty, versatile, and packed with vitamins), its super-strength lies in its potential to save the planet. It’s a typical summer afternoon in Kommetjie, a coastal ...

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 ...

With help from Nat Geo, CU Boulder alumnus Markos Scheer expands kelp farm to include oysters, and he touts the economic and environmental benefits of the venture University of Colorado Boulder ...

Seaweed is everywhere. We've all seen it on walking along the shores of New England. But it is more than just a nuisance to avoid on the beach. In reality, it's a vital part of our fight against ...

For all his life, Alaskan fisherman Dune Lankard has looked to the sea—for food, work and purpose. “I started fishing when I was five,” says Lankard, a member of the Athabaskan Eyak community, an ...

Kelp and oysters are growing in farms throughout southern Southeast Alaska, yet there’s a limited supply of seeds to grow those farms. But a small-scale commercial seed hatchery in Ketchikan could ...

Five years ago, the American farmed-seaweed industry barely existed. Wild seaweeds had been harvested for thousands of years by Indigenous peoples on both coasts, for a range of uses including ...

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 ...

The quest of a Long Island seaweed farmer to make kelp the next kale. Michael Doall with kelp last month at the SUNY Maritime College campus in the Bronx.Credit...Johnny Milano for The New York Times ...