The CEO of a Biddeford kelp processing company had some lessons to share with international business and political leaders at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, held May 22-26 in Davos, ...

On his boat, surrounded by the Long Island Sound, checking kelp lines is Jonathan McGee’s happy place. “Growing up, I spent a lot of time on the Sound. I’m a big water person and I’ve always been an ...

On a clear March afternoon, John Smet shut off the engine of his workboat as he approached his go-to wild kelp bed. It was high tide, so less kelp was pooling on the surface of the water, making it ...

Kelp is plentiful in remote, coastal Alaska. Fuel is not. And it’s expensive. Many isolated communities rely on diesel generators for energy because they are not connected to pipelines or the ...

Kelp can help to fortify the environment amid warming temperatures. Underwater forests could be the answer to helping to mitigate the environment from the impacts of climate change, experts told ABC ...

Although salmon farms help take pressure off wild stocks, the penned fish do produce a lot of waste which is concentrated at one location. A new farm is exploring a solution to that problem, by ...

From seaweed processing to grain milling, five food companies across Maine are slated to receive a total of $1 million in federal funding to build greater food resilience in Maine’s food system. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Over the last 10 years, an ecological disaster has taken place along the coast from San Francisco north. Bull kelp forests, which provide some of the most productive habitat ...

CAMBRIDGE — Kelp-based foods are making their way onto K-12 school lunch menus — to some surprising reviews. “It’s like heaven on earth,” Agustina Leon Perdomo, a 16-year-old junior at Cambridge ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington is moving to protect struggling kelp beds near Squaxin Island as part of a broader push to restore critical marine habitats. On Friday, Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. On November 14, 2016, a ...