For centuries, sailors crossing the Atlantic occasionally encountered floating mats of brown seaweed drifting far from land ... giant seaweed belt keeps growing Scientists do not point to a single cause.
Charmouth beach is always busy ... Those near the river mouth are covered with a rippling mono-pelt of bright-green gutweed (Ulva intestinalis). Also known as grass kelp because of its colour, this harmless common seaweed is found all around UK shores ... .
Unfazed by the crashing waves, 72-year-old Wu Feng-chiao (吳鳳嬌) yanks fistfuls of brownish-purple seaweed she will process into jelly, one of the last women in Taiwan keeping the marine harvest tradition alive.
Unfazed by the crashing waves, 72-year-old Wu Feng-chiao yanks fistfuls of brownish-purple seaweed she will process into jelly, one of the last women in Taiwan keeping the marine harvest tradition alive ... .
... ... . Rounding the rocky outcrop beyond it brings you to a shallow pool where you can stand, with clouds of damselfish darting about and wrens busily gathering strands of seaweed to build their nests during the breeding season. ... .
Australia'sGreat SouthernReef is built not by coral but by seaweed. The seaweed forests on these rocky reefs stretch more than 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) around southern Australia ... Why does seaweed matter? ...Time for seaweed biobanks?.
The Northland-made ROV is a tethered robotic submersible controlled by operators on the surface, allowing large-scale caulerpa removal to be carried out underwater without divers ....
SYDNEY, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Scientists are developing "seaweed biobanks" to help safeguard Australia's vast Great SouthernReef, as marine heatwaves drive widespread losses in the country's underwater seaweed forests.