The Ambler Road would give mining companies access to a vast trove of untapped copper, cobalt and rare-earth minerals, but ...

Kelp and oysters are growing in farms throughout southern Southeast Alaska, yet there’s a limited supply of seeds to grow those farms. But a small-scale commercial seed hatchery in Ketchikan could ...

GROTON - Parked near the shoreline at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus is a boxy white trailer that can easily be mistaken for a storage unit on wheels. But inside, researchers are ...

Kids (and parents) curious about Long Island’s connection to the waterways that shape their home have the opportunity to dive into learning about them at the Long Island Children’s Museum’s new ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography is ready for spooky season! Guests can expect to be greeted with a giant skeleton in the Giant Kelp Forest as part of ...

More than 10 years after unusually high water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean killed off Northern California’s aquatic kelp forests, the region has still not recovered, reports David Helvarg, ...

Ocean farmers are revolutionizing the way we think about food and the environment. By cultivating massive amounts of sustainable crops like kelp, they not only provide a nutritious food source but ...

NOAA Fisheries and seaweed farmers team up to chart wild kelp beds, helping grow Alaska’s seaweed aquaculture industry Alaska’s coastline holds vast, untapped potential for seaweed aquaculture—but ...

New environmental DNA tools can accurately and inexpensively quantify kelp-derived biomass in sediments below commercial kelp farms, according to research recently published in PLOS One. The new study ...

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is a brave man. When he asked whether Alaska should consider fish farming, he must have known the world would come crashing in, but he said it anyway. The public reaction, ...

Kelp aquaculture operations are rapidly expanding in Alaska and coming into increasingly greater contact with wild marine species. In an attempt to limit some of the interactions between Alaska’s ...