Shrinking seaweed A recent marine heatwave off Western Australia rapidly shrank the distribution range of an ecologically-important seaweed by about 5 per cent, researchers report. Scientists say the ...

Preliminary research suggests seaweed can trap and store valuable minerals. Is this the beginning of a new type of mining? By Moira Donovan / Hakai Magazine Published May 1, 2024 8:00 AM EDT This ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Among Rachel Carson’s many literary ...

The seaweed, which smells like rotten eggs and emits toxic gases when it comes ashore, proved a nuisance for Florida beachgoers in the spring – which is also the start of the Sunshine State’s tourist ...

A giant "blob" of sargassum seaweed measuring 5,000 miles wide — twice the width of the continental United States — is headed for the Florida coast and already covering beaches with algae that will ...

A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean has already begun to wash up on Florida beaches. The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt - as the biomass stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. Seaweed could be scaled as a climate solution and turned into ...

Piles of kelp were removed from a popular Sydney beach, although some councils prefer to leave the seaweed for its ...

(CNN) -- A gargantuan mass of seaweed that formed in the Atlantic Ocean is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly and ...

Seagrasses are critical to coastal ecosystems—offering habitat, stabilizing the seafloor and buffering wave energy—but globally they're increasingly under threat. Beginning in 2011, a series of ...