NEW YORK — Underwater forests could be the answer to helping to mitigate the environment from the impacts of climate change, experts told ABC News. Kelp, large brown algae or seaweeds that grow in ...

One of the biggest challenges for Connecticut's few kelp farmers is a lack of hands-on training in nursery cultivation.

Cruising by on a boat, it’s easy to miss Jake Patryn’s farm, which looks like nothing more than an unassuming row of red and white buoys floating just off the coast of Machias, Maine. The crop he and ...

With help from Nat Geo, CU Boulder alumnus Markos Scheer expands kelp farm to include oysters, and he touts the economic and environmental benefits of the venture University of Colorado Boulder ...

Employees check a line ribbon kelp, or Alaria marginata, in March at Seagrove Kelp’s Doyle Bay Farm, six miles outside of Craig, Alaska. State regulations require kelp farmers to gather seed from at ...

Many of us think of seaweed as a nuisance. The slimy, sometimes smelly, stuff that clogs fishermen's nets, gets tangled around our ankles in the ocean, and washes up unwanted on the beach. Even its ...

The water-filtering abilities of farmed kelp could help reduce marine pollution in coastal areas, according to a new study. The paper analyzed carbon and nitrogen levels at two mixed-species kelp ...

When food forecasters made their predictions for 2022, they told The New York Times that farmed kelp would move beyond dashi and the menus at high-end restaurants and into everyday foods like pasta ...

The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers received a grant of $75,000 from The Nature Conservancy to help expand their kelp farm and hatchery in Shinnecock Bay on eastern Long Island. As the first Indigenous-owned ...

The growing season for kelp is wintertime and into spring. So last autumn, Caspard and Paul Joyce, Bowdoin's marine operations manager, dropped two anchors attached to thirty-foot ropes about 1,250 or ...

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 ...