From the Caribbean to the Mediterranean, tonnes of seaweed is turning up on beaches in ever bigger quantities. Seaweed blooms — massive, rapid accumulations of seaweed — are smelly and can release ...

Every year, millions of tourists flock to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico expecting pristine beaches. Increasingly, they’re ...

Seaweed forests have become a much-plumbed well for anyone seeking solutions to some of the world's biggest environmental problems. Companies with a climate-conscious bent are using seaweed instead of ...

Seaweed has become a key cash crop as climate change and industrial trawling test the resilient culture of the semi-nomadic Vezo people Along Madagascar’s south-west coast, the Vezo people, who have ...

Many of us think of seaweed as a nuisance -- the slimy, sometimes smelly stuff that clogs fishermen's nets, gets tangled in our ankles in the ocean, and washes up unwanted on the beach. Even its name ...

If you're a fan of Korean, Chinese, or Japanese culture and cuisine, you've definitely heard of seaweed or must have even tried it! Seaweed is actually algae and marine plants but can be consumed as a ...

From carbon storage to plastic alternatives, seaweed’s seven superpowers are turning this ocean algae into a climate change hero.

Every day, Christine Jimenez-Mariani flips open her laptop and starts sorting through the latest pictures of rotting piles of seaweed that have landed in her inbox. The dozens of images she receives ...

Last year, walking along the beach after a storm, Geraldton resident Wendy Watters started wondering if the seaweed she could see was the same as what was sold at the supermarket. Wendy Watters says ...

LAST week, I wrote about the extreme heat and prolonged drought brought about by the 2023-2024 El Niño and how it affected ...

South Chungcheong’s seaweed industry expects a boost after the United States exempted seasoned seaweed from import tariffs, a move that positions the region to benefit from growing demand for Korean ...