The protein in sea lettuce, a type of seaweed, is a promising complement to both meat and other current alternative protein sources. Seaweed also contains many other important nutrients, and is grown ...

The processing of foods typically generates a lot of wastewater, which has to be cleaned up before being released back into local waterways. According to new research, however, that water could first ...

The number of species of the green alga sea lettuce in the Baltic Sea region and Scandinavian coast is much larger than what was previously known. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg surveyed ...

Process water from the food industry is an excellent fertilizer in land-based seaweed cultivation. Not only does the seaweed grow faster; its protein content also multiplies. In this way, process ...

Homes along Anstruther beach front, a charming fishing village in the East Neuk of Fife, popular with day-trippers and holidaymakers who come to Scotland in search of the sea, the mountains, the ...

Sea lettuce is harmless in water, but it can become fatal when it washes ashore. PARIS, Aug. 21, 2009 — -- Vacationers, beware! A potentially dangerous seaweed could be a threat to the health of ...

Giant kelp grows along Maria Island National Park’s Fossil Bay, in Tasmania, Australia, where gathering and eating seaweed is a tradition for the palawa people. Photograph by Shane Pedersen, Alamy ...

Taku Kondo is a San Francisco sushi chef-turned expert forager from Northern California who runs the popular YouTube channel Outdoor Chef Life. (See our interview with him here.) This is Kondo’s ...

Sitting outside to enjoy a summer day while she did some embroidery, Judy Pickens noticed her eyes were beginning to bother her. Was it her contacts? Pollen? But she also had a sore throat. Was she ...