I was off work last week to spend time with family at the beach. The vacation was amazing, and I was thankful to get away, but when we arrived in the Dominican Republic, we encountered something we ...

When it comes to marine plants, none are more common than seaweed. Especially because many of the most well-known aquatic plants including sargassum, kelp, red algae and phytoplankton are all ...

On a rainy September morning, on the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland, a handful of engineers are standing around a plastic swimming pool. Sitting along the water's surface are little rubber duckies, ...

This post comes to PBS Nature from World Wildlife Fund (WWF). WWF and Nature are collaborating on a series of blog posts from WWF conservation scientists that will share the stories and motivations ...

Few foods are as lauded by nutritionists as seaweed. A food and medicine source that the U.S. National Ocean Service notes was used for millennia by ancient Roman and Egyptian civilizations, seaweed ...

Seaweed farming is a rapidly expanding global industry. As a food resource, it has high nutritional value and doesn't need ...