Step aside, primates and crows. Thanks to new drone footage, killer whales have joined an exclusive club: the short list of animals that make and use tools. Scientists have discovered that southern ...

Kelp has long been used to keep cows healthy but it may also help reduce emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas. A cow sticks her nose into a tub of kelp additive at Larson family dairy near Ottertail ...

Another startup sees farmed kelp as a market opportunity — this time for use in skin care. Cold Current Kelp in Kittery grows kelp, extracts compounds from the seaweed and makes the a variety of skin ...

Sea kelp is rich with nutrients and health benefits, but too much of it, especially in supplements, can cause negative side effects.

A new economic modeling tool is helping Maine kelp farmers identify cost-saving strategies with remarkable precision. By ...

KITTERY, Maine — Summertime is in the rearview mirror, but one R.W. Traip Academy student’s invention shines a light on how beachgoers can protect the water and the environment during the dog days of ...

Cold Current Kelp is a Kittery startup that has developed skin care products from farmed-kelp extract. Founded by Krista Rosen and Inga Potter in 2021, the company grows, harvests, processes and ...

So far as feedstocks for the production of biofuels go, kelp is a highly promising one on many fronts, and a new technology promises to boost its credentials even further. Scientists at the University ...