Eating low-carbon foods helps reduce emissions, but some foods actually suck up carbon from the atmosphere for good, leaving the climate in a better place. Could we eat more of them?
While visiting Portugal, I saw another innovator planting kelp forests to store carbon - and perhaps one day be used as a food source. Kelp, the largest species of seaweed, is a type of ...
Kale is old news. Kelp is the new green you'll start seeing on the regular, according to chef Barton Seaver who is the director of Harvard's Healthy and sustainable Food Program. Not only is kelp ...
For most of Connecticut’s agriculture sector, the harvest has already concluded by this time of year. But for a new crop of farmers growing sugar kelp in the waters of the Long Island Sound ...
Connecticut’s small kelp industry grows the seaweed primarily for food, but the farmers say it has potential for a wide range of applications they’re eager to support. Jon McGee of New England ...
Despite their low numbers, sea otters consume voracious kelp-eating sea urchins at a high enough rate that kelp forests continue to persist and provide habitat for numerous species. Without sea ...