Seaweed

Plus three that are, sadly, just myths.

In Washington State, a new preservation facility offers a back-up plan for an uncertain future.

As a supersized sargassum bloom heads toward Florida and the Caribbean, we take a closer look at past big blobs.

Irish moss has a long culinary history.

These delicious, under-utilized greens are being farmed for the first time.

Isabella Abbott, the first native Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science, rewrote the book on her beloved limu.

When it comes to battling the climate-damaging gas in belches, a little of the macroalgae goes a long way.

What happens when you have too much of a good thing.

Warm water and "sea star wasting disease" helped urchins take over the coast, a new study finds.

Kathleen Drew-Baker’s study of British algae helped rescue Japan's nori industry.

Researchers suspect that the smelly macroalgae will keep piling up on ocean shores.