“We think we can make fuel at a price that’s competitive with the fossil fuel that’s in use today.” [Photo: Kun Xia] BY Adele Peters Off the coast of Catalina Island near Los Angeles, a prototype of a ...

Kelson Marine and collaborators sample kelp grown on an open-ocean seaweed farm. Farming kelp to sell as food, beauty products, fertilizer additives and other goods is a growing industry in Maine, but ...

The War in Iran has choked the world's fertilizer supply. The fix has been sitting in the ocean for thousands of years and ...

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A new batch of sugar kelp is growing, suspended on hemp lines hanging a few feet below the surface of the water along Oyster Bay Harbor at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park. As it grows over the winter ...

A kelp farm can produce three to seven pounds per foot of line. With up to 18,000 feet of line in the water, “that’s a lot of kelp,” said Atlantic Sea Farms CEO Briana Warner. ATLANTIC SEA FARMS In ...

WITH SEA FARMING AND KELP. CHRISTA ROSEN AND INGA POTTER HEAD OUT FROM KITTERY POINT, MAINE, ANTICIPATING A HEALTHY HAUL. A LEISURELY TEN MINUTES FROM THE HARBOR, YELLOW BUOYS MARK THEIR GROW LINES.

Two kelp farms are looking to brave some uncharted water off of Vashon Island. Some believe seaweed aquaculture could help restore critical habitat for shellfish and native seaweed species, on top of ...

Once water gets in your waders this time of year, you're on the clock at Shinnecock Kelp Farm. You have 15 minutes left to comfortably wrap up what you're doing and get out of the chilly bay. That's ...

CRISTA ROSEN AND INGA POTTER HEAD OUT FROM KITTERY POINT, MAINE, ANTICIPATING A HEALTHY HAUL. A LEISURELY TEN MINUTES FROM THE HARBOR, YELLOW BUOYS MARK THEIR GROW LINES. THEY CULTIVATE THEIR CATCH ...