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.

Seaweeds are versatile algae. They are sources of food, medicine, and many other products, and they have the added benefit of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In 2016, Washington's first commercial seaweed farm broke onto the scene. It was the result of unprecedented collaboration between local tribes, state agencies, marine researchers, and local ...

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 ...

Villagers of Matasawalevu, in Nakasaleka, Kadavu are continuing to build environmentally sustainable livelihood opportunities through seaweed farming, with support from the Ministry of Fisheries.

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 ...

Beyond packaging, Maria has woven seaweed into the heart of her restaurant, Starina's Kitchen. By adapting it to familiar ...