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Car drives 80 kilometres on fuel from seaweed

A breakthrough in Denmark, where a passenger car was the first in the world to drive 80 kilometres on a blend containing biofuel from seaweed. ...

New research looking at the use of cutaway peatland and poor agricultural land for freshwater fish production is underway at Athlone Institute of Technology

UK.- Aquaculture, the breeding, rearing, and harvesting of fish, is now the fastest growing food sector globally due to a rapidly increasing population. It is ...

UNAIR Professor uses microalgae for renewable biodiesel development

By Asthesia DheaIndonesia is a country rich in natural resources, especially oil. Oil is used for fuel both in industry and transportation. However, oil wealth ...

Common challenge of aquaculture and marine conservation in Zanzibar

Gland (IUCN).- Seaweed farming is one of the activities conducted by coastal communities in many places around the world. On the coast of Zanzibar, this ...

New FCRR – Dynamic Integrated Marine Climate, Biodiversity, Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Market Model (DIVERSE)

Vancouver, Canada.- Global change drivers, such as population growth, increasing consumption, inequity in resource distribution, overfishing, climate change and pollution, are challenging the sustainability of ...

Researchers have a gut instinct for new in-feed sea lice vaccine

UK.- A team of Scottish and international aquaculture experts is developing a pioneering oral vaccine for sea lice, helping the industry to tackle one of ...

FAO and the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences strengthen efforts to build sustainability in fisheries and aquaculture

Rome, Italy.- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (CAFS) today agreed to strengthen cooperation and build the ...

The waste from seafood to become the sustainable foods of the future

By Heidi Kornholt*Denmark.- In order to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, we should utilize the ocean’s resources and create nutritional foods from the seafood ...

tru® Shrimp announces strategic partnership with the Research Park at South Dakota State University

USA.- The tru Shrimp Co. President and CEO Michael Ziebell and the Research Park at South Dakota State University CEO and Executive Director Dwaine Chapel ...

Success in metabolically engineering marine algae to synthesize valuable antioxidant astaxanthin

Japan.- A research group led by Professor HASUNUMA Tomohisa of Kobe University’s Engineering Biology Research Center have succeeded in synthesizing the natural pigment astaxanthin using ...