Behavior
G-day, mate! Up for some seaweed footy?
Social media and drone footage shows humpback whales in Australia, US and Canada cognitively engaged with floating kelp and seaweed.
Tag: seaweed
Aquaculture
Seaweed Saviour: How improvements in seaweed farming can provide solutions to global food security and climate change.
Using waste-water from food production can improve the output and sustainability of seaweed farms.
Undergraduate Research
Is coastline seaweed in danger?
Seaweed growing on shores must survive between tides. But climate change may threaten those hardy species.
Sea Turtles
Where do baby sea turtles go?
Where do baby sea turtles go after hatching on the beach and heading out towards sea? New tracking technology is…
Aquaculture Biochemistry Biology Coastal Management Conservation Human impacts Pollution Restoration Toxicology
Sargassum: An Overlooked Solution
Sargassum, a type of brown seaweed, provides important ecosystem services in the Atlantic. However, this new study explores how sargassum…
Climate Change Human impacts
The Largest Belt on Earth?
What golden, gooey, and weighs 20 million metric tons??
Climate Change
Seaweed may be a winner in a warming world
Have you ever thought about ocean critters that might benefit from climate change? Hernández et al. collected six species of…
Biology
Marine Halloween: Crabs Dress Up To Trick-or-Treat
Dressing up is a Halloween tradition. In the ocean, some animals 'dress up' to trick their predators or go unnoticed…
Book Review
An Ocean in Your Beer
This St. Patrick’s Day, think outside the green beer and whiskey and try an ocean-inspired beer! Didn't know there were…
Biology Climate Change Coastal Management Ecology Ocean Acidification
Diversity and its role in combating the effects of climate change
In the battle against climate change, ecosystems need to get down with diversity.