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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sargassum floats near the water’s surface, while kelp is anchored to rocks on the ocean floor. Both of these types of algae feed and give shelter to other marine life, including fish, turtles, ...

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 ...

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

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

Jellyfish float among the fronds of a kelp forest off Isla de los Estados, Argentina. Giant kelps (Macrocystis pyrifera) are the largest algae in the ocean, growing upward to more than 150 feet.

And McGovern thinks she may have a solution: replacing the water-soluble plastic with a plastic alternative made of kelp, a type of algae that grows in the ocean. She founded Dirigo Sea Farms a ...