The loss of kelp populations can significantly impact ecosystems, and potentially the growing demand for sustainably farming food, feed, fertilizer, medicine, and cosmetics. To give kelp a chance ...

Kelp may be one of the first species to show how coastal ecosystems will respond to the L.A. fires. These forests of fast-growing brown algae provide food and habitat for hundreds of marine ...

Across the Southern Hemisphere, patches of seaweed are getting sick. Scientists have found strange yellow growths called galls on kelp in Latin America, southern Africa, and Australasia. The disease ...

If you are going swimming or fishing along the Norwegian coast this summer you may encounter forests of giant kelp. What you may ... natural ingredient in food, medicine and paint.

Saccharina japonica, one of the most widely cultivated seaweeds globally, is particularly prominent along China's coastline, where it has been farmed in both cold-temperate and subtropical waters.

Chef Andrew Wilkinson of North Coast Seafoods hands out samples of kelp "meatballs" at an Introduction to Global Public Health class. (Photos by Lee Pellegrini) A new nutritious, sustainable, ...