E-commerce giant Amazon is funding the world’s first commercial-scale offshore wind seaweed farm that will sit between turbines – and this project has the potential to achieve a lot of great things.

Amazon is planning to allocate some of its funds to build the first "commercial-scale" seaweed farm in the world. The structure will be constructed between wind turbines offshore. The company dubbed ...

Seaweed grows faster than nearly any plant on Earth — and it might be one of our most powerful climate solutions. From absorbing massive amounts of carbon to rebuilding damaged ecosystems, seaweed’s ...

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A year ago, Trevor Sande wasn’t thinking much about seaweed. Early this November, however, he and the employees at Hump Island Oyster Company in Ketchikan, which Sande founded and owns, will plant ...

New research published in Nature Sustainability shows that expanding global seaweed farming could offer a sustainable alternative to land-based agricultural expansion and go a long way toward ...

Mar. 7—HOOD CANAL, Wash. — On a gray February afternoon, Joth Davis motors his skiff along the northern edge of Hood Canal, a glacier-carved fjord in Puget Sound. A grid of black buoys marks the ...

Climate change, overfishing and habitat loss have caused a sharp decline in fish stocks around Pemba Island, off the coast of Tanzania. To find a new income from the sea, women from Pemba are turning ...

Sri Lanka’s coastline, with its pristine beauty and bountiful resources, has long been seen as an asset. Yet, hidden beneath ...

Humboldt State University is expanding and diversifying its seaweed research farm in Humboldt Bay to include bull kelp this summer. With the help of HSU students, researchers aim to inform future ...

Seaweed has become a key cash crop as climate change and industrial trawling test the resilient culture of the semi-nomadic Vezo people ...

IFFCO launches Dharamrut, a seaweed-based botanical extract, to boost crop vigor, nutrient efficiency and soil health under ...