The Santa Barbara Channel’s kelp forests and its sandy beaches are intimately connected. Giant kelp, the foundation species of rocky reefs, serves as a major part of the beach food web as fronds of ...

Technically brown algae (it turns bright green when cooked from the natural chlorophyll), kelp has been consumed for centuries in cold coastal areas all around the world, including in parts of Japan, ...

While kelp forests persist along northern Maine's rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern coast in recent decades. In its stead, carpet-like turf algae have moved in ...

You may not often encounter “burgeoning” and “kelp” in the same sentence, but the seaweed is truly having a moment. With its high levels of B vitamins, potassium, magnesium, iodine, and more, kelp has ...

PHILADELPHIA — Kelp plays a key role in the future of food as a sustainable, nutritious ingredient popping up in a range of applications, according to panelists who discussed the possibilities of ...

CHICAGO – The Future of Food @ SXSW took place virtually March 18-21. It included a diverse group of speakers who challenged attendees to think about how food and agricultural production will need to ...

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 ...

Alaska is home to many remote communities in coastal, arctic and subarctic environments. The difficulty of transporting food to many of these areas means that food insecurity is a huge issue.

Various fish species, including cunner and the pollock — the two dominant fish species identified in the study — swim off Cashes Ledge through some of the healthy kelp forest that remains in the Gulf ...