On a picturesque summer day in Northern California, Max Rintoul, Lauren Kiino, and Gary Fleener, all with Hog Island Oyster Company, headed out on Tomales Bay for an exploratory harvest. But on this ...

Floating seaweed can travel long distances to new territories and accumulate in large mats or wash ashore in huge quantities.

The finding helps explain why some seaweeds, sponges, and corals appear to avoid most infections by fungi and bacteria, according to a study published May 19 Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

Seaweed is well established as a source of thickeners and emulsifiers such as carrageenan and agar and has carved out a small segment of the healthy snacks aisle, but it could also give rivals a ...

Farmers and gardeners have used seaweed as mulch and fertilizer for centuries, and Mainers are lucky to have a free, abundant supply dumped on their shores year-round. The stuff brims with ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly ...

It was just happenstance that Corinna Kaufman stumbled upon a green seaweed bookmark one day while browsing in a bookstore in Massachusetts as a child. But, it was the inspiration that propelled her ...

Virtually absent from most present-day Western diets, seaweed and aquatic plants were once a staple food for ancient Europeans, an analysis of molecules preserved in fossilized dental plaque has found ...