Walking along the beaches of New England, it's easy to spot large amounts of fine red seaweed clogging the coastline, the result of sweeping changes beneath the water. Researchers looked at seaweed ...

Researchers warn Gulf Coast sargassum levels could reach record highs ...

Somewhat drab and unassuming, the humble rockweed’s olive-green or yellowish-brown appearance belies its importance in the rocky intertidal zone. “It’s considered a foundation species,” UC Santa ...

While the news often mentions the terrible things in the sea, such as gyres of plastic and other trash, the oceans also hold an extremely valuable resource: seaweed. This renewable and easily ...

A new global certification program aims to protect from overfishing wild seaweeds, which serve not only as a crop but a habitat for hundreds of other ocean species Think of overfishing and sea ...

A new study by the University of Delaware's Danielle Dixson and Rohan Brooker has shown that butterflyfishes avoid coral that has come in contact with seaweed. The paper, which appeared this week in ...

On a picturesque summer day in Northern California, Max Rintoul, Lauren Kiino, and Gary Fleener, all with Hog Island Oyster Company, headed out on Tomales Bay for an exploratory harvest. But on this ...

Sunlight streaming through a forest of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, off Catalina Island, California, USA. (Photo by: David Fleetham/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) While seaweed ...

When the tide rolls in and the forest canopy begins to thin, coastal foraging tours take on a new kind of magic. Visitors who join these guided adventures along America’s shoreline can hunt for wild ...

DURHAM, N.H. - Walking along the beaches of New England, it is easy to spot large amounts of a fine red seaweed clogging the coastline, the result of sweeping changes in the marine environment ...