kelp

On Wednesday, environmental charity Ecology Action Centre released its Roadmap for Nova Scotia Kelp Farming. The group says the province is “well positioned to gain a significant share of the $200-million North American regional market for products containing kelp and kelp-based ingredients.”

A new study may hold some keys to saving B.C. kelp from ominous ocean “blobs” as climate crisis advances.

An ambitious project to map and monitor sea kelp forests along the entire B.C. coast is afoot, and scientists are using seemly disparate tools — both ancient and modern — to do it.