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Orkla takes the pliers card
Sep 28, 2020

Food Monitor

Orkla takes the pliers

The food group Orkla announces that it is investing in developing seaweed as a new industry for sustainable growth. For this purpose, the company Orkla Ocean has been established and acquires owner...
How seaweed farming is uplifting women and communities in Belize card
Sep 22, 2020

The Fish Site

How seaweed farming is uplifting women and communities in Belize

The Nature Conservancy has been partnering with the Government of Belize, non-profits, the private sector and local fishers – including women – to develop an innovative sustainable seaweed maricult...
Scientists use seaweeds to travel back in time card
Sep 15, 2020

Hakai Magazine

Scientists use seaweeds to travel back in time

A new study highlights the treasure trove of data trapped in seaweeds over a century old. In recent years, however, scientists have discovered several new ways of extracting data from century-old p...
Forget planting trees: This company is making carbon offsets by putting seaweed on the ocean floor card
Sep 15, 2020

Fast Company

Forget planting trees: This company is making carbon offsets by put...

Running Tide grows kelp, which sucks carbon from the atmosphere. Then it just lets it sink to the ocean floor, where the carbon will stay for a thousand years.
Slippery when wet: Fish, seaweed to help cargo ships reduce fluid friction card
Sep 15, 2020

UPI

Slippery when wet: Fish, seaweed to help cargo ships reduce fluid f...

Shipping engineers are looking to fish and seaweed for new strategies to reduce fluid friction and help cargo ships slide through the ocean water.
The ocean farmers trying to save the world with seaweed card
Sep 04, 2020

Time

The ocean farmers trying to save the world with seaweed

Amy McConnell, a Canadian Kelp Resources Ltd. lab technician, holds up a piece of giant kelp in the Trevor Channel on Vancouver Island.
Seaweed may replace plastic as future source of fuel and food card
Aug 29, 2020

Nature World News

Seaweed may replace plastic as future source of fuel and food

Seaweed has many benefits; it may replace plastic as a future source of fuel and food.
Seaweed: The food and fuel of the future? card
Aug 27, 2020

BBC

Seaweed: The food and fuel of the future?

Seaweeds are fast-growing algae. They utilise energy from sunlight, and take up nutrients and carbon dioxide from the seawater. Scientists suggest seaweed could help fight climate change and offset...
World Wildlife Fund Announces Investment in Seaweed Farming Through Ocean Rainforest card
Aug 19, 2020

Ethical Marketing News

World Wildlife Fund Announces Investment in Seaweed Farming Through...

In a first for World Wildlife Fund (WWF), with generous support from The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust, the organization announced an $850,000 investment in Ocean Rainforest, to...
Could Tasmania become the seaweed capital of Australia? card
Jul 23, 2020

ABC Net

Could Tasmania become the seaweed capital of Australia?

Dairy cows in Tasmania are about to get a change in menu with seaweed being added to their diet to reduce methane emissions and increase milk production.
Dairy cows in Tasmania fed seaweed to fight climate change card
Jul 22, 2020

ABC

Dairy cows in Tasmania fed seaweed to fight climate change

The CSIRO has previously shown that a small amount of Asparagopsis seaweed added to a cow's diet can reduce methane emissions by more than 80 per cent.
Could seaweed reduce methane emissions from cows? card
Jul 21, 2020

Food Processing

Could seaweed reduce methane emissions from cows?

In a step towards a potential solution, Fonterra is partnering with Sea Forest, to determine if using seaweed in cows’ feed can reduce emissions from commercial dairy herds.