“We’re having success,” said Brent Hughes, a professor of biology at Sonoma State University who is restoring kelp in Sonoma, Mendocino and Marin counties. “We’re growing kelp out in the ...

The guide aims to advance the state’s budding mariculture industry at a time when global demand for kelp products is on the rise.

As the gulf of Maine heats up, lobsters are migrating north. Seaweed could serve as a replacement crop. But does it actually taste good?

Cold Current Kelp co-owner Krista Rosen holds up an example of wild sugar kelp that has grown on the company’s previously planted line in Kittery, Maine, on Dec. 15, 2024. Early on a freezing ...

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 ...

The new pilot project will sell the problematic purples to restaurants or turn them into agricultural products.

Kelp forests are a very dynamic ecosystem, so any valid study of adverse effects would need to include multiple possible suspects ...

Ongoing beach and bluff closures encourage more and more marine mammals to congregate in north La Jolla and harm the delicate ...