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Forbes

Our Energy-to-Food Future

By Christopher Marquis 07/15/22

As climate change seeps into every aspect of our food chain, including our oceans, there is an imperative to pivot to alternative sources for nutrition to keep up with the needs of our population. One…

The New York Times

The Johnny Appleseed of Sugar Kelp

By Charity Robey 06/10/22

When Michael Doall was a teenager, he hated seaweed, and so did everybody else he knew on Long Island. It was an icky nuisance that brushed against your legs at the beach, fouled your fishing…

NYBG

Sea To Soil: Using Kelp As A Soil Amendment

05/24/22

Native to the East Coast, sugar kelp may become an important tool to sustainably maintain plant health, given it is rich in important micronutrients and powerful bio-stimulating compounds. Join Sean Barrett and Edwina von Gal…

Anthropocene

The Biggest Carbon Sink of All

By Mark Harris 05/19/22

One of the brightest hopes for sequestering carbon lies in the darkest place on earth: the abyssal depths of the deep ocean. For millennia, dead plants and animals have sunk to the bottom of the…

THE CONVERSATION

Kelp won’t help: why seaweed may not be a silver bullet for carbon storage after all

By John Barry Gallagher 03/11/22

Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of hope placed in seaweed as a way to tackle climate change. The excitement stemmed from studies suggesting seaweed could be scaled up to capture and…

MIT Technology Review

Companies hoping to grow carbon-sucking kelp may be rushing ahead of the science

By James Temple 09/19/21

In late January, Elon Musk tweeted that he planned to give $100 million to promising carbon removal technologies, stirring the hopes of researchers and entrepreneurs. A few weeks later, Arin Crumley, a filmmaker who went…

Sierra

Can Farming Seaweed Put the Brakes on Climate Change?

By Heather Smith 06/28/21

Seaweed has been removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for at least 500 million years. Recent studies suggest that wild seaweed continues to do humanity a solid by sequestering 173 million metric tons annually. The…

Sea Grant

Seaweed is About to Blow Your Climate Change Mind

By Heather Kramp 05/19/21

Seaweed is also eaten by humans all over the world and its popularity in the U.S. is growing. Rich in protein and vitamins and minerals like calcium, iron, folic acid, and vitamin K, studies have…

THE CONVERSATION

Move over, corn and soybeans: The next biofuel source could be giant sea kelp

By Diane Kim, Ignacio Navarrete and Jessica Dutton 04/01/21

Giant kelp, the world’s largest species of marine algae, is an attractive source for making biofuels. In a recent study, we tested a novel strategy for growing kelp that could make it possible to produce…

NPR

‘Run The Oil Industry In Reverse’: Fighting Climate Change By Farming Kelp

By Fred Bever 03/01/21

In the race to stall or even reverse global warming, new efforts are in the works to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and put it somewhere safe. One startup in Maine has a…

TIME

The Ocean Farmers Trying to Save the World With Seaweed

By Mélissa Godin 09/04/20

In a cove in Bamfield, a coastal community in British Columbia, Canada, Louis Druehl steers his boat, The Kelp Express, a mile along the mountainous coastline. For 51 years, this boat has taken Druehl to…

Harvard University

How Kelp Naturally Combats Global Climate Change

By Sylvia Hurlimann 07/04/19

When we think of kelp, we conjure up images of magical underwater forests. Recent research, however, suggests that in addition to creating beautiful habitats, macroalgae such as kelp play a large role reducing the effects…

KEY RESOURCES

Lazy Point Farms

05/24/22

Lazy Point Farms are created to provide the structural, educational, and logistical support needed to advance the future of sugar kelp farming on Long Island. Whether you are an aspiring kelp farmer, an existing shellfish…

MORE NEWS

THE CONVERSATION

How farming giant seaweed can feed fish and fix the climate

By Tim Flannery 07/31/17

Bren Smith, an ex-industrial trawler man, operates a farm in Long Island Sound, near New Haven, Connecticut. Fish are not the focus of his new enterprise, but rather kelp and high-value shellfish. The seaweed and…

ACS

Seaweed as a rich new source of heart-healthy food ingredients

07/20/11

In an article that may bring smiles to the faces of vegetarians who consume no dairy products and vegans, who consume no animal-based foods, scientists have identified seaweed as a rich new potential source of…