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In the future, we can eat seaweed instead of animal meat
From kelp burgers to sea bacon, sustainable food entrepreneurs are innovating to appeal to hungry human omnivores.
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Life
Australia record hot, the sea into a 'hot pot' cooked many creatures
Climate change is causing Australia to experience a record heat wave with many forest fires and its effects under the sea are much worse.
Oceanography
Both purple sea urchin 'army' threatens the US coast
The coastal ecosystem from the US state of California to Oregon is facing the purple sea urchin 'army', with the number of urchins increasing by more than 10,000% since…
Oceanography
A close-up of fish with green flesh is 1 meter long, especially on the planet
This green fish is caught by a fisherman in March 2017. Because the color of the fish was so strange, he decided to post on Twitter and Instargram, to create a network s…
Oceanography
Sea otters 'protect the earth'
When hunting sea urchins, otters not only solve their hunger, but also help humans reduce the global warming, scientists claim. Sea urchins eat kelp, a plant that absorb…
Oceanography
The gloomy future of the ocean (part 1)
Scientists believe that in the oceans today chemical changes are taking place, although at first this change seems very small.
Oceanography
Dragon leaves
Phycodurus eques is one of the most beautiful fish and also has many mysteries on the Japanese level of the ocean world. Looking at the dragon's leaves, it looks like ey…
Biology
Data from satellites help track the world's largest kelp forest
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara University, USA, have developed a new way to study how environmental and climate factors affect giant kelp forest ecosystems on a large sc…
Biology
Anti-obesity by ... seaweed
Through tests, scientists at Hokkaido University (Japan) have discovered fucoxanthin - a colorant in brown kelp - that helps reduce 10% of body weight of mice.
Environment
Japanese radiation detection off the west coast of the United States
Radioactive iodine is found in kelp off the west coast of the United States, more than a year after the Japanese earthquake / tsunami, causing the worst nuclear crisis i…