It is barely visible, and needs no irrigation or fertilizers: lying off the coast of Australia is a vast seaweed crop destined to curb livestock's climate-altering flatulence and belches.

It is barely visible, lying off the coast of Australia is a vast seaweed crop destined to curb livestock's climate-altering flatulence and belches. "Seventy-one percent of the Earth's surface is ...

The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum bloom has already broken its own size record by millions of tons — and the growing ...

Each year, between March and October, large amounts of brown seaweed called sargassum wash up on the shores of Caribbean islands—choking beaches, damaging marine life and threatening tourism and ...

Beneath the waves are forests of asparagopsis, a native red seaweed abundant in Tasmanian coastal waters which is rich in the organic compound bromoform. More than 40 studies have shown that the ...

Emma Tompkins received funding for work on sargassum from the Economic and Social Research Council GCRF (Grant number: ES/T002964/1) Emily Wilkinson does not work for, consult, own shares in or ...

But year after year, that algae — better known as seaweed — has missed the Grand Strand beaches. And while the Myrtle Beach area does get some seaweed, it doesn’t compare to other coastal ...

The boy’s grandmother alerted police. 1️⃣ Toxic bloom: At least 31 million tons of supercharged seaweed are moving toward Florida and around the Caribbean, threatening a putrid invasion of ...

Excess seaweed can smother shellfish farms. But University of Washington researchers had hoped to turn that nuisance seaweed into something beneficial. Last summer, swaths of seaweed scraped from ...

The Atlantic Ocean is dealing with an overwhelming amount of toxic seaweed.This year’s sargassum bloom has already broken its size record, and more are expected, according to CNN. But what is ...