Eating low-carbon foods helps reduce emissions, but some foods actually suck up carbon from the atmosphere for good, leaving ...

As it grows over the winter, the algae will improve water quality and be used to educate high school students. Then it will ...

This past season, over half of America’s seaweed was grown in Maine. In the last five years, kelp production in Maine has ...

The ocean’s typical seaweed, sea kelp, is acknowledged for its significant nutritional composition and is frequently used in various nutritional formulations. Health-conscious individuals often ...

That expansion is contingent not only on driving more local demand for edible kelp — which has been challenging — but also on finding and developing new ways to use the plant. Sustainable fuel ...

Kelp farmer Bren Smith co-founded GreenWave, which promotes kelp’s ecological and agricultural benefits as a sustainable ...

THIS IS A KELP SPOOL. RIGHT NOW, THERE’S NOTHING ON IT. IT’S JUST BARE. BUT THIS IS WHAT WE USE AS THE SEED STRING THAT WE GIVE TO OUR FARMERS AT THE BEGINNING OF CULTIVATION SEASON ...

What's swirling around in your delicious bowl of miso soup? Get cozy with the basic ingredients that go into one of the most ...

Recent research suggests that the soft PVA plastics used to hold together detergent and dishwasher pods may not actually biodegrade. Now, a small team in Maine is working on a kelp bioplastic that ...

Hurlburt was a member of the General Assembly in 2013 when the state passed legislation allowing licensed kelp farms. Proponents at the time pointed to the crop’s wide range of benefits and ...

That expansion is contingent not only on driving more local demand for edible kelp — which has been challenging — but also on finding and developing new ways to use the plant. Sustainable fuel ...