Kelp farming is catching on in Maine as a way to sustain working class coastal communities while supporting ecosystems and strengthening resilience. This story traces the journey of help from farm to ...

Plastic has been the staple of our manufacturing industry over the last 60 years. It was made to last … and it did. But what ...

Lapointe is talking about a floating seaweed known as sargassum in a region of the Atlantic called the Sargasso ... Human-made debris, from shipping pallets to plastic crates and fuel canisters ...

If the Pilgrims had been like many people today and simply tossed their empty bottles and wrappers over the side, Atlantic ... catches plastic from the North Pacific gyre, the trashiest of five ...

Yet the desolate Pacific ... Atlantic reported. Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories? Sign up for Mashable's weekly Light Speed newsletter. The plastic ...

Credit: S Prodution via Shutterstock Plastic waste has long posed a formidable challenge to the global environment, and the Asia-Pacific region—home to over ... Bioplastics made from seaweed, rice ...

Plastics are used extensively in farming, from plastic coated seeds to mulch ... Massive episodic inundations of floating sargassum seaweed have been impacting shorelines on both sides of the tropical ...

Levels of floating seaweed mats, known as sargassum, have skyrocketed in the Atlantic Ocean in the past month, with the total ...

Plastic waste has long posed a formidable challenge to the global environment, and the Asia-Pacific region—home to over half the world’s population and many of the world’s largest coastal ...