I discovered seaweed by accident at a local Japanese market five years ago. What started as a curious purchase turned into a ...

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 ...

In addition, the same seaweed can go by different names, depending on the language spoken. There are three main groups of seaweed: Brown algae include kombu, also known as kelp, wakame and hijiki.

Seaweed aquaculture is an emerging global industry estimated to be worth over $14 billion dollars US in 2019. "Seaweed is an ...

Juliet says, 'They can be nurseries for fish and provide services for many other different types of animals and seaweeds. The forest is full of all this amazing life.' Even the holdfast - the ...

Fossils of some of the earliest relatives of modern-day seaweeds date back 1.6 billion years. Seaweeds have been exceptionally resilient organisms, outlasting the dinosaurs (which first appeared 230 ...