There’s a lot of money to be made by cultivating kelp. Katharina Nøkling-Eide, a PhD candidate at the Norwegian Seaweed Biorefinery Platform, is helping make it happen. “Alginate is becoming a scarce ...

Every year, thousands of tonnes of brown algae are extracted from the seabed to obtain compounds such as alginates, a polymer composed of sugars that has high density and strength, offering potential ...