Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Maine marine sciences student Cole Roxbury holds up a rope of kelp at the Darling Marine Center. Photo by Adam St.

Researchers have discovered that marine seaweeds have a remarkable and previously unknown capacity to detoxify serious organic pollutants such as TNT or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and they may ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about what goes into the organic food label. But I left out an important category: seaweed. Species like kelp and rockweed, which grow off Maine’s coast, are used in a variety ...