The combination of organic sea kelp, blue-green algae, and red algae provides a natural source of iodine, trace minerals, and amino acids, which are essential for a healthy thyroid. We appreciate ...

Eating low-carbon foods helps reduce emissions, but some foods actually suck up carbon from the atmosphere for good, leaving ...

As it grows over the winter, the algae will improve water quality and be used to educate high school students. Then it will ...

These marine plants and algae are sometimes called “sea vegetables”—but there are reasons beyond gastronomy to appreciate them. Kelp, in particular, has the potential to greatly reduce ocean ...

Recent research suggests that the soft PVA plastics used to hold together detergent and dishwasher pods may not actually biodegrade. Now, a small team in Maine is working on a kelp bioplastic that ...

Today, we find algae in our food, in both ordinary and unexpected places. Brown algae, especially kelp, are used to extract another gel-forming product called algin. Algin absorbs water to make gels ...

On the right side of the cover, it is daytime—and we can see two kinds of algae in the water around the boat. One type is microalgae, which can only be seen with a microscope. Macroalgae, on the other ...

However, our findings suggest that on algae-dominated reefs ... but also for other marine ecosystems such as seagrass meadows ...

Seaweed and kelp are eaten by both humans and domestic animals all over the world. Several species are used in everything ...