Starr Brainard plucked tiny, white chamomile flowers off green stems with a fork. Nearby, other edible flowers — borage, Johnny-jump-ups and calendula — stood, ready for harvest on Brainard’s urban ...

Harvesting salt from the sea is a practice that goes back millennia in Hawaii. The Polynesian voyagers likely found crystallized salt collecting in the rocks along the shoreline when they arrived in ...

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.

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 ...

[Noozhawk’s Note from Green Hawk Interactive Producer Sarah Ettman-Sterner: The Nuvigreen Project is a mentorship experience that helps bring to light a new source of environmental reporting, while ...

Sea cucumbers described as "dark maggots" have brought new life to fish farms in Hawaii. Kauaʻi Sea Farm, the Pacific American Foundation and the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) ...

As pilot projects go, it couldn’t have gone much worse. The nation’s first commercial shellfish farm in federal waters was supposed to provide a national model for sustainable aquaculture. Bobbing in ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Oyster farming appealed to me for many reasons, chief among them how ...

As pilot projects go, it couldn’t have gone much worse. The nation’s first commercial shellfish farm in federal waters was supposed to provide a national model for sustainable aquaculture. Bobbing in ...

The growing season for kelp is wintertime and into spring. So last autumn, Caspard and Paul Joyce, Bowdoin's marine operations manager, dropped two anchors attached to thirty-foot ropes about 1,250 or ...

Off the coast of the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, an underwater metropolis bustles. Sea turtles glide lazily through the surf while schools of fluorescent yellow butterflyfish weave between ...