Giant kelp off Little Corona Beach in Orange County. Scientists picked up evidence last year of radioactive material from a damaged nuclear power plant in the tissues of kelp growing off the Orange ...
Two scientists who found radiation in sea kelp along the Southern California coast after Japan’s 2011 tsunami-induced nuclear disaster now hope to study whether contamination may be present in fish ...
An aggressive Japanese seaweed is making its way around the world, invading foreign harbors. It arrived in Southern California in 2001, including Santa Barbara's harbor. Researchers at the ...
Expanding on earlier visits to Japan to learn about scallop-growing techniques, 15 aquaculture and fisheries experts from Maine are headed back to study the Japanese wild and farm-raised kelp industry ...
A highly invasive form of brown kelp native to Japan has spread throughout the San Francisco waterfront since it was discovered three years ago and could threaten native species and ecosystems if ...
WHENEVER I SEE THE leathery black kelp known in Japan as kombu, I think of my mother, reaching into our pantry and retrieving a sheet or two several times each day. As a little girl in Tokyo, I had no ...
Radioactive material from a damaged Japanese nuclear plant turned up in kelp beds off the Orange County coast more than a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami, with the largest ...
Two scientists who found radiation in sea kelp along the Southern California coast after Japan’s 2011 tsunami-induced nuclear disaster now hope to study whether contamination may be present in fish ...