Women seaweed farmers walk along Zanzibar’s beaches gathering seaweed, a vital ingredient used in various products like food ...
Seaweed has been farmed off Zanzibar for decades, but there is a new boom underway for global industries like cosmetics.
E-commerce giant Amazon is funding the world’s first commercial-scale offshore wind seaweed farm that will sit between turbines – and this project has the potential to achieve a lot of great things.
For Zanzibar’s semi-autonomous government, seaweed sits at the heart of its “blue economy” agenda — a plan to grow prosperity ...

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Amazon is planning to allocate some of its funds to build the first "commercial-scale" seaweed farm in the world. The structure will be constructed between wind turbines offshore. The company dubbed ...
In an area of the Long Island Sound called the Thimble Islands, Bren Smith has been leasing a patch of water from the Connecticut Department of Agriculture for almost twenty years. Recreationalists ...
New research published in Nature Sustainability shows that expanding global seaweed farming could offer a sustainable alternative to land-based agricultural expansion and go a long way toward ...
Offshore wind is the fastest-growing energy business. By 2040, analysts forecast that one million hectares of sea and ocean will be filled by offshore wind turbines. Amazon is now interested in using ...
NUSA LEMBONGAN, Indonesia (Reuters) - Before the coronavirus pandemic took its grip on Indonesia, the pristine beaches of Lembongan island lapped by the Indian Ocean were dotted with sunbathing ...
Seaweed is a versatile food that provides key minerals like iodine, magnesium and calcium. Adding seaweed extract to cattle feed could help reduce their methane emissions. Seaweed can also be turned ...