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Climate change threatens food but microscopic algae offer answers

Jules Siedenburg, University of East Anglia In 2021 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the first volume of its latest authoritative report on climate ...

These Tiny Coral Reef Fish Parents Decide When Their Embryos Hatch

by Sally Palmer, The University of Texas at Austin Leaving the comfort and safety of home to explore the world is a difficult decision. However, ...

UMaine researchers look into how to make kelp aquaculture a better carbon sink

by The University of Maine Cost-effective carbon dioxide removal technologies play a key role in combating climate change. A team of researchers at the University ...

Chemical fingerprints could land the biggest catch: seafood fraudsters

by University of South Australia Universal chemical fingerprints that can trace the geographic origins of many marine species have been developed by Australian scientists to ...

Nanoplastics can move up the food chain from plants to insects and from insects to fish

by University of Eastern Finland (UEF Viestintä) The concern about plastic pollution has become widespread after it was realised that mismanaged plastics in the environment ...

USask team plans unique facility to develop, test alternative fish food

by University of Saskatchewan A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team is partnering with an array of industry groups to establish a “globally unique” facility ...

Where is your seafood really from? We’re using ‘chemical fingerprinting’ to fight seafood fraud and illegal fishing

Zoe Doubleday, University of South Australia Fake foods are invading our supermarkets, as foods we love are substituted or adulterated with lower value or unethical ...

Swapping meat for seafood could improve nutrition and reduce emissions

by Nature Publishing Group Sustainable seafood could provide more nutrition to people than beef, pork and chicken, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reports an article ...

Seaweed is on the Menu with Connecticut’s Sugar Kelp Industry

Stacey Stearns, UConn Extension, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources A team from UConn is using innovative research and community outreach to help make ...

Engineering Industrial Microalgae for Producing Healthy Biological Oil

by LI Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences The genetic talents of a marine microalga are now unlocked, to produce medium-chain triacylglycerols, which is a kind ...